Estimation for inaccessible and non-sampled forest areas using model-based inference and remotely sensed auxiliary information

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 226-233

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a   Næsset, Erik ^b   Gobakken, Terje ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Landsat; Lidar; Precision

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ERRORS; REMOTE SENSING;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; INFERENTIAL METHODS; LANDSAT; PRECISION; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECISION; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA;

HEDMARK; MINNESOTA; NORWAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941629415     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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