Demonstration of percent tree cover mapping using Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) and sensitivity with respect to Landsat ARD processing level

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Egorov, Alexey V ^a   Roy, David P ^a   Zhang, Hankui K ^a   Hansen, Matthew C ^b   Kommareddy, Anil ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis Ready Data; Landsat; Processing level; Regression tree mapping; Tree cover

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REFLECTION;

ANALYSIS READY DATA; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT ARCHIVES; MAPPING ACCURACY; REGRESSION TREES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TREE COVER;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 85042550946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10020209     Document Type: Article

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