Estimation of aboveground biomass in Mediterranean forestsby statistical modelling of ASTER fraction images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-56

  Fernandez Manso O ^a,b   Fernandez Manso A ^b   Quintano, C ^c  

^a Civil Protection Agency   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

ASTER; Biomass estimation; Forest inventory; Mediterranean pine; Multiple linear regression; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

ASTER; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84904463486     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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