An application of remote sensing data in mapping landscape-level forest biomass for monitoring the effectiveness of forest policies in northeastern china

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 612-620

  Wang, Xinchuang ^a,b   Shao, Guofan ^c   Chen, Hua ^d   Lewis, Bernard J ^a   Qi, Guang ^a,e   Yu, Dapao ^a   Zhou, Li ^a   Dai, Limin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^e PINGDINGSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Changbai Mountain; China's forestry; Forest biomass; Forest carbon; Forest policy; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CHANGBAI MOUNTAIN REGIONS; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST CARBONS; FOREST POLICY; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE;

BIOMASS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MAPPING; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION INDEX;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POLICY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; FORESTS; MOUNTAINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

BAEKDU MOUNTAIN; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS;

BIOMASS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84883457188     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0089-6     Document Type: Article

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