Environmental concerns of deforestation in myanmar 2001-2010

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Chuyuan ^a   Myint, Soe W ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon release; Deforestation; Evapotranspiration; Land surface temperature; Myanmar

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; FOREST CARBON FLUXES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MYANMARS; POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; RESEARCH RESULTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

DEFORESTATION;

EID: 84992184252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090728     Document Type: Article

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