Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS vegetation continuous fields with lidar-based estimates of error

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 427-448

  Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Song, Xiao Peng ^a   Feng, Min ^a   Noojipady, Praveen ^a   Anand, Anupam ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Kim, Do Hyung ^a   Collins, Kathrine M ^a   Channan, Saurabh ^a   DiMiceli, Charlene ^a   Townshend, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous fields; Landsat; lidar; MODIS; tree cover

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CALIBRATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL RADAR; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; CONTINUOUS FIELDS; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; LANDSAT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; TREE COVER; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS;

RADIOMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; LIDAR; MODIS; TREE; VEGETATION;

EID: 84882659985     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.786146     Document Type: Article

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