A new tree cover percentage map in Eurasia at 500 m resolution using MODIS data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 209-232

  Kobayashi, Toshiyuki ^a   Tsend Ayush, Javzandulam ^b   Tateishi, Ryutaro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Estimation; High resolution; Land cover; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION RESULTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; LAND COVER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; REGRESSION TREE ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION TREE MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; RADIOMETRY; RESOLUTION; SATELLITES; FORESTS; IMAGES; SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84893429704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6010209     Document Type: Article

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