National forest aboveground biomass mapping from ICESat/GLAS Data and MODIS imagery in China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5534-5564

  Chi, Hong ^a   Sun, Guoqing ^b   Huang, Jinliang ^a   Guo, Zhifeng ^c   Ni, Wenjian ^c   Fu, Anmin ^d  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d State Forestry Administration   (China)

Author keywords

China; Forest aboveground biomass; Forest inventory data; ICESat GLAS; Large footprint LiDAR; MODIS

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BIOMASS; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CHINA; FOREST INVENTORY DATA; ICESAT/GLAS; LARGE FOOTPRINT LIDAR; MODIS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INVENTORIES; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84930027547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505534     Document Type: Article

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