Estimating tropical forest biomass more accurately by integrating ALOS PALSAR and Landsat-7 ETM+ data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4871-4888

  Basuki, Tyas Mutiara ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^b   Hussin, Yousif A ^b   van Duren, Iris ^b  

^a Forestry Research Institute of Solo   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE FUSION; MIXTURES; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MIXED DIPTEROCARP FOREST; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLOMETRY; ALOS; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL FOREST;

DATA; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MIXTURES; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876454675     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.777486     Document Type: Article

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