Estimating montane forest above-ground biomass in the upper reaches of the Heihe River Basin using Landsat-TM data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7339-7362

  Tian, Xin ^a,b   Li, Zengyuan ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^b   Chen, Erxue ^a   van der Tol, Christiaan ^b   Li, Xin ^c   Guo, Yun ^a,d   Li, Longhui ^e   Ling, Feilong ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LANDFORMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; REMOTE SENSING; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE PROTECTION;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ASTER; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST INVENTORY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIOMASS; DATA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGES; INVENTORY CONTROL;

CHINA; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84915750346     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.967888     Document Type: Article

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