Translating criteria of international forest definitions into remote sensing image analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 252-262

  Magdon, Paul ^a   Fischer, Christoph ^b   Fuchs, Hans ^a   Kleinn, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crown cover; Forest area; Forest definition; Random forests; RapidEye

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CROWN COVER; FOREST AREA; FOREST DEFINITION; RANDOM FORESTS; RAPIDEYE;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899855654     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.033     Document Type: Article

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