Fractional forest cover changes in northeast China from 1982 to 2011 and its relationship with climatic variations

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 775-783

  Jia, Kun ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Wei, Xiangqin ^c   Li, Qiangzi ^c   Du, Xin ^c   Jiang, Bo ^a   Yao, Yunjun ^a   Zhao, Xiang ^a   Li, Yuwei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; forest; fractional forest cover (FFC); neural networks (NNs); Northeast China

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREST; FOREST COVER; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (NNS); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; NORTHEAST CHINA; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOREST COVER; NDVI; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; FORESTS; LAND USE; NATURAL RESOURCES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 85028140846     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2349007     Document Type: Article

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