Mapping tree height distributions in Sub-Saharan Africa using Landsat 7 and 8 data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 185, Issue , 2016, Pages 221-232

  Hansen, Matthew C ^a   Potapov, Peter V ^a   Goetz, Scott J ^b   Turubanova, Svetlana ^a   Tyukavina, Alexandra ^a   Krylov, Alexander ^a   Kommareddy, Anil ^a   Egorov, Alexey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOMAPPING; RADIO ALTIMETERS; TIME SERIES;

DRY EVERGREEN FOREST; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; REGRESSION TREE ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION TREE MODELS; TREE HEIGHT ESTIMATION; TREE-HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVERGREEN FOREST; GLAS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; LANDSAT; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SENTINEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

KALAHARI DESERT; SAHARA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84961189548     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.023     Document Type: Article

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