A circa 2010 thirty meter resolution forest map for China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5325-5343

  Li, Congcong ^a   Wang, Jie ^b   Hu, Luanyun ^c   Yu, Le ^c   Clinton, Nicholas ^c   Huang, Huabing ^b   Yang, Jun ^c   Gong, Peng ^b,c,d,e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Forest extent; Forest type; MODIS; TM

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; SAMPLING; SPECTROMETERS; THULIUM; TIME SERIES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; FOREST EXTENT; FOREST TYPE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODIS; TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84986907065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6065325     Document Type: Article

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