Forest cover maps of China in 2010 from multiple approaches and data sources: PALSAR, Landsat, MODIS, FRA, and NFI

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-16

  Qin, Yuanwei ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^a,b   Dong, Jinwei ^a   Zhang, Geli ^a   Shimada, Masanobu ^c   Liu, Jiyuan ^d   Li, Chungan ^e   Kou, Weili ^f   Moore, Berrien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e Guangxi Forest Inventory and Planning Institute   (China)

^f SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Forest; FRA; MODIS; NLCD; PALSAR

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS;

CHINA; FOREST; FRA; MODIS; NLCD; PALSAR;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; NDVI; PALSAR; PIXEL; POLARIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; MAPS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING;

CHINA;

EID: 84941126207     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.08.010     Document Type: Article

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