Assessment of the mapping of fractional woody cover in southern African savannas using multi-temporal and polarimetric ALOS PALSAR L-band images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 166, Issue , 2015, Pages 138-153

  Urbazaev, Mikhail ^a   Thiel, Christian ^a   Mathieu, Renaud ^b,c   Naidoo, Laven ^b   Levick, Shaun R ^d   Smit, Izak P J ^e,f   Asner, Gregory P ^g   Schmullius, Christiane ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Backscatter; Carnegie Airborne Observatory; L band; LiDAR; Savanna; Seasonality; Woody cover

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CARBON; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ALOS PALSAR; CARNEGIE AIRBORNE OBSERVATORIES; L-BAND; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; WOODY COVER;

RADAR IMAGING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BACKSCATTER; CARBON CYCLE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENERGY FLUX; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; PALSAR; PREDICTION; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER; WOODY PLANT;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84934939265     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.06.013     Document Type: Article

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