Mapping annual forest cover in sub-humid and semi-arid regions through analysis of Landsat and PALSAR imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Qin, Yuanwei ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^a,b   Wang, Jie ^a   Dong, Jinwei ^a   Ewing, Kayti ^a,c   Hoagland, Bruce ^a   Hough, Daniel J ^a   Fagin, Todd D ^a   Zou, Zhenhua ^a   Geissler, George L ^d   Xian, George Z ^e   Loveland, Thomas R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Environmental Division   (United States)

^d Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience   (United States)

^e EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Forest change; Forest management; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DATA FUSION; DATA INTEGRATION; FORESTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; FOREST CHANGE; FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; OBSERVATION SATELLITES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; UNCERTAINTIES;

MAPPING;

EID: 85008340859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8110933     Document Type: Article

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