Mapping forest biomass from space - Fusion of hyperspectralEO1-hyperion data and Tandem-X and WorldView-2 canopy heightmodels

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 35, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 359-367

  Kattenborn, Teja ^a   Maack, Joachim ^a   Faßnacht, Fabian ^b   Enßle, Fabian ^a   Ermert, Jörg ^a   Koch, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass modelling; Canopy height models; Hyperspectral; Machine learning algorithms; Tandem X; Worldview 2

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST DYNAMICS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TANDEM-X; VEGETATION MAPPING; WORLDVIEW;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; KARLSRUHE;

EID: 84924298708     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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