Tropical forest canopy cover estimation using satellite imagery and airborne lidar reference data

Silva Fennica

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Korhonen, Lauri ^a,b   Ali Sisto, Daniela ^a   Tokola, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

ALOS AVNIR 2; Beta regression; Forest area; International forest definition; Logistic regression; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

ALOS AVNIR-2; BETA REGRESSION; FOREST AREA; INTERNATIONAL FOREST DEFINITION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; VEGETATION INDEX;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALOS; AVNIR; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; LOGIT ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

LAOS;

EID: 84941659969     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: 22424075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.1405     Document Type: Article

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