Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 168, Issue , 2015, Pages 316-334

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Beaudoin, André ^b   Beer, Christian ^c   Cartus, Oliver ^a,d   Fransson, Johan E S ^e   Hall, Ronald J ^f   Pathe, Carsten ^g   Schmullius, Christiane ^g   Schepaschenko, Dmitry ^h   Shvidenko, Anatoly ^h   Thurner, Martin ^c,i   Wegmüller, Urs ^a  

^a GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^g FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^h INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BIOMASAR; Biomass; Envisat ASAR; Forest; Growing stock volume; MODIS vegetation continuous fields; Northern hemisphere

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASAR; ENVISAT ASAR; FOREST; GROWING STOCKS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; ENVISAT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; MODIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PIXEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VOLUME;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; PLANTS;

EID: 84938319734     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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