Estimates of aboveground biomass from texture analysis of landsat imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6407-6422

  Kelsey, Katharine C ^a   Neff, Jason C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Error; Forest; Regional biomass map; San juan national forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ENTROPY; ERRORS; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODELS; TEXTURES; BIOMASS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FOREST; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; NATIONAL FORESTS; REGIONAL BIOMASS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES;

BIOMASS; IMAGE TEXTURE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; ENTROPY; FORESTS; ERRORS;

EID: 84904490457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6076407     Document Type: Article

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