Monitoring Forest cover at global scale: The JRC approach

Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-244

  Achard, F ^a   Beuchle, R ^a   Bodart, C ^a   Brink, A ^a   Carboni, S ^b   Eva, H ^a   Mayaux, P ^a   Rasi R ^a   Simonetti, D ^b   Stibig, H J ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Reggiani SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change detection; Forestry; Landsat; Sampling

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS; FOREST COVER CHANGE; FOREST RESOURCES ASSESSMENTS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LANDSAT; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; RESOLUTION IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84879986741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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