Aboveground biomass mapping of African forest mosaics using canopy texture analysis: Toward a regional approach

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1984-2001

  Bastin, Jean François ^a,b,c   Barbier, Nicolas ^d   Couteron, Pierre ^d   Adams, Benoît ^a   Shapiro, Aurélie ^e   Bogaert, Jan ^b   De Cannière, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Gestion Intégrés des Forêts Tropicales et Territoires Tropicaux   (Congo)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

^e World Wide Fund Nat Nat C   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Canopy structure; Canopy texture analysis; Central Africa; Congo Basin forest; Forest classification; Forest stand structure; Fourier transform; Remote sensing; Very high resolution imagery

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATURATION; SENSOR; STAND STRUCTURE;

AFRICA;

BIOMASS; CENTRAL AFRICA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84919326472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1574.1     Document Type: Article

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