Remote sensing based estimation of potential terrestrial carbon stocks in West Africa

34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  MacHwitz, M ^a   Wegmann, M ^a   Conrad, C ^a   Dech, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actual land cover; Carbon; Emission trading; Net primary productivity; Potential land cover

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTORS; ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC; EMISSION TRADING; LAND COVER; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE GASES; RADIOMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84879742723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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