Estimating temporal changes in soil carbon stocks at ecoregional scale in Madagascar using remote-sensing

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 54, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-14

  Grinand, C ^a,b   Maire, G Le ^c   Vieilledent, G ^c   Razakamanarivo, H ^d   Razafimbelo, T ^d   Bernoux, M ^a  

^a UMR ECO SOLS   (France)

^b ETC Terra   (France)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d Laboratoire des Radio Isotopes   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Change detection; Deforestation; PLSR; Random forest; Soil organic carbon; Soil landscape factors; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 85018227918     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2016.09.002     Document Type: Article

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