Mapping aboveground biomass using texture indices from aerial photos in a temperate forest of Northeastern China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Meng, Shili ^a   Pang, Yong ^b   Zhang, Zhongjun ^a   Jia, Wen ^b   Li, Zengyuan ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerial photos; AGB; FOTO indices; High spatial resolution image; LiDAR; SVR; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; FORECASTING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

AERIAL PHOTOS; FOTO INDICES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); TEMPERATE FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84962613569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030230     Document Type: Article

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