Mapping major land cover types and retrieving the age of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon by combining single-date optical and radar remote sensing data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 194, Issue , 2017, Pages 16-32

  Carreiras, João M B ^a   Jones, Joshua ^b   Lucas, Richard M ^c   Shimabukuro, Yosio E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age of secondary forests; ALOS PALSAR; Amazon; Landsat TM; Random forests; Tropical secondary forests

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; ERRORS; INFRARED DEVICES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALOS PALSAR; AMAZON; LANDSAT TM; RANDOM FORESTS; SECONDARY FORESTS; TROPICAL SECONDARY FORESTS;

REFORESTATION;

AGE STRUCTURE; ALOS; BIODIVERSITY; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MACHINE LEARNING; PALSAR; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SECONDARY FOREST; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS;

EID: 85016034323     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.016     Document Type: Article

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