A 50-m forest cover map in Southeast Asia from ALOS/PALSAR and its application on forest fragmentation assessment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dong, Jinwei ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^a   Sheldon, Sage ^a   Biradar, Chandrashekhar ^b   Zhang, Geli ^a,c   Duong, Nguyen Dinh ^d   Hazarika, Manzul ^e   Wikantika, Ketut ^f   Takeuhci, Wataru ^g   Moore III, Berrien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Jordan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^e ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^f BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

^g INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ALGORITHMS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84899884487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085801     Document Type: Article

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