Geospatial strategy for tropical forest-wildlife reserve biomass estimation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 917-923

  Kumar, Pavan ^a   Sharma, Laxmi Kant ^b,c   Pandey, Prem Chandra ^b,d   Sinha, Suman ^b   Nathawat, Mahendra Singh ^b,e  

^a BANASTHALI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF JHARKHAND   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Biomass; NDVI; regression model; spectral response modeling; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NDVI; REGRESSION MODEL; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; FOREST INVENTORY; GPS; IRS (SATELLITE); NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILDFIRE;

INDIA; RAJASTHAN; SARISKA NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84877921162     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2221123     Document Type: Article

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