Assessing the relationships between growing stock volume and sentinel-2 imagery in a mediterranean forest ecosystem

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 508-517

  Chrysafis, Irene ^a   Mallinis, Giorgos ^a   Siachalou, Sofia ^b   Patias, Petros ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; MULTISPECTRAL INSTRUMENTS; OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; PERPENDICULAR VEGETATION INDEX; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION;

VEGETATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSAT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NEAR INFRARED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENTINEL;

GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 85018457980     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2017.1295479     Document Type: Article

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