Mapping forest biomass using remote sensing and national forest inventory in China

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1267-1283

  Du, Ling ^a,b   Zhou, Tao ^a,b   Zou, Zhenhua ^a,b   Zhao, Xiang ^a   Huang, Kaicheng ^a,b   Wu, Hao ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass; Forest cover proportion; Forest inventory; Remote sensing; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; LAND-COVER TYPES; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORY STATISTICS; REGIONAL FORESTS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; DOWNSCALING; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; MAPPING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INVENTORIES; REMOTE SENSING;

CHINA;

EID: 84902497851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5061267     Document Type: Article

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