Combining ALOS/PALSAR derived vegetation structure and inundation patterns to characterize major vegetation types in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Central Amazon floodplain, Brazil

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-59

  Ferreira Ferreira, Jefferson ^a   Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire ^b   Streher, Annia Susin ^a   Affonso, Adriana Gomes ^c   De Almeida Furtado, Luiz Felipe ^c   Forsberg, Bruce Rider ^d   Valsecchi, João ^a   Queiroz, Helder Lima ^a   De Moraes Novo, Evlyn Márcia Leão ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL MAMIRAUÁ   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian v rzeas; Conservation; Management; Object oriented image analysis; Random forests; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937124164     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: 15729834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-014-9359-1     Document Type: Article

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