Mapping of central africa forested wetlands using remote sensing

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 531-542

  Betbeder, Julie ^a   Gond, Valery ^a   Frappart, Frederic ^b   Baghdadi, Nicolas N ^c   Briant, Gael ^d   Bartholome, Etienne ^e  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congo River Basin; ICESat GLAS; landscape; large river floodplain forest; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); PALSAR; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894474837     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2269733     Document Type: Article

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