Comprehensive monitoring of Bangladesh tree cover inside and outside of forests, 2000-2014

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Potapov, P ^a   Siddiqui, B N ^b   Iqbal, Z ^b   Aziz, T ^b   Zzaman, B ^b   Islam, A ^b   Pickens, A ^a   Talero, Y ^a   Tyukavina, A ^a   Turubanova, S ^a   Hansen, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Resource Information Management System (RIMS) Unit   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; forest monitoring; Landsat; statistical sampling; tree canopy cover; trees outside forests

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; SAMPLING;

BANGLADESH; FOREST MONITORING; LANDSAT; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; TREE CANOPY COVERS; TREES OUTSIDE FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; LANDSAT; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATIONAL ECONOMY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 85033713004     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa84bb     Document Type: Review

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