Integrating global land cover products for improved forest cover characterization: An application in North America

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 709-724

  Song, Xiao Peng ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Feng, Min ^a   Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Channan, Saurabh ^a   Townshend, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

data fusion; forest; land cover; North America; regression tree

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FOREST; LAND COVER; NORTH AMERICA; REGRESSION TREE MODELS; REGRESSION TREES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS;

FORESTRY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84903173809     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.856959     Document Type: Article

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