Improved mapping of tropical forests with optical and sar imagery, part i: Forest cover and accuracy assessment using multi-resolution data

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

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-91

  Häme, Tuomas ^a   Kilpi, Jorma ^a   Ahola, Heikki A ^a   Rauste, Yrjö ^a   Antropov, Oleg ^a   Rautiainen, Miina ^b   Sirro, Laura ^a   Bounpone, Sengthong ^c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Department of Forestry ^*  (Laos)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; ALOS AVNIR; ALOS PALSAR; Forest; Optical; REDD; Sampling; SAR; Tropical; VHR

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; SAMPLING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS AVNIR; ALOS PALSAR; FOREST; OPTICAL; REDD; SAR; TROPICAL; VHR;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; AVNIR; FOREST COVER; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALSAR; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FORESTRY; MAPPING; SAMPLING;

EID: 84897114935     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2241019     Document Type: Article

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