Mapping Forest and Their Spatial-Temporal Changes from 2007 to 2015 in Tropical Hainan Island by Integrating ALOS/ALOS-2 L-Band SAR and Landsat Optical Images

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

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 852-867

  Chen, Bangqian ^a,b   Xiao, Xiangming ^c,d   Ye, Huichun ^d,e   Ma, Jun ^a   Doughty, Russell ^c   Li, Xiangping ^b   Zhao, Bin ^b   Wu, Zhixiang ^a   Sun, Rui ^a   Dong, Jinwei ^c   Qin, Yuanwei ^c   Xie, Guishui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Hainan Key Laboratory of Earth Observation   (China)

Author keywords

Forest loss and gain; high biomass crops; image data fusion; land surface water index (LSWI); normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA FUSION; DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); FORESTRY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE FUSION; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

BIOMASS CROP; BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; FOREST LOSS; IMAGE DATA FUSION; LAND SURFACE WATER INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTICAL IMAGING;

MAPPING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; DATA PROCESSING; FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CHINA; HAINAN;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 85043395560     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2795595     Document Type: Article

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