Using the regression estimator with landsat data to estimate proportion forest cover and net proportion deforestation in gabon

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 151, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-148

  Sannier, Christophe ^a   McRoberts, Ronald E ^b   Fichet, Louis Vincent ^a   Makaga, Etienne Massard K ^c  

^a SIRS   (France)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c AGEOS ^*  (Gabon)

Author keywords

REDD; Two stage estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION;

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; FOREST CONCESSIONS; FOREST RESOURCES; REDD; REGRESSION ESTIMATORS; TWO STAGE SAMPLINGS; TWO-STAGE ESTIMATIONS;

DEFORESTATION;

DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA;

DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SAMPLING;

EID: 84906944950     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.09.015     Document Type: Article

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