National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: A case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Tyukavina, A ^a   Stehman, S V ^b   Potapov, P V ^a   Turubanova, S A ^a   Baccini, A ^c   Goetz, S J ^c   Laporte, N T ^c   Houghton, R A ^c   Hansen, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon monitoring; Congo; forest cover loss; REDD; remote sensing; uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; CONGO; FOREST COVER LOSS; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; REDD; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

FORESTRY;

CARBON CYCLE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SMALLHOLDER; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON; CONGO; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

EID: 84891919666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044039     Document Type: Article

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