Major forest changes and land cover transitions based on plant functional types derived from the ESA CCI Land Cover product

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 47, Issue , 2016, Pages 30-39

  Li, Wei ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^a   MacBean, Natasha ^a   Peng, Shushi ^a   Defourny, Pierre ^b   Bontemps, Sophie ^b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ESA land cover map; Forest change; Land cover transition; PFT map

Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FOREST; LAND COVER; MAP;

BRAZIL; CANADA; INDONESIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988683766     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.12.006     Document Type: Article

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