Quantifying multi-decadal change of planted forest cover using airborne LiDAR and Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoyi ^a,b   Huang, Huabing ^a,b   Gong, Peng ^a,c,d   Biging, Gregory S ^b   Xin, Qinchuan ^e   Chen, Yanlei ^b   Yang, Jun ^c   Liu, Caixia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Forest inventory; Forest monitoring; Three north shelter forest program; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957886681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010062     Document Type: Article

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