Integration of GF2 optical, GF3 SAR, and UAV data for estimating aboveground biomass of China's largest artificially planted mangroves

Remote Sensing

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2020, Pages

  Zhu, Yuanhui ^a   Liu, Kai ^b,c   Myint, Soe W ^b,c,d   Du, Zhenyu ^e   Li, Yubin ^d   Cao, Jingjing ^b   Liu, Lin ^a,f   Wu, Zhifeng ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Sun Yat sen University Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory   (China)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass estimation; DSM; Mangrove plantation; Optical images; SAR

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOMASS; DATA INTEGRATION; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; RANDOM FOREST ALGORITHM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85088248833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/RS12122039     Document Type: Article

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