The Use of Remote Sensing Data to Estimate Land Area with Forest ...

This paper compares for the first time methods for determining the area for which canopy cover is calculated (using data from (ALS) and discusses the ...

Context Agricultural lands with forest vegetation, e.g., orchards, do not constitute forests according to the forest definition formulated by the national and ...

The Use of Remote Sensing Data to Estimate Land Area with Forest ...

The Use of Remote Sensing Data to Estimate Land Area with Forest Vegetation Cover in the Context of Selected Forest Definitions. Language: English; Authors ...

The use of remote sensing data to estimate land area with forest ...

(1) Background: Like many other countries, Poland is obliged to report forest area to the Climate Convention (UNFCCC Protocol) and the Food and Agriculture ...

Forest species mapping and area proportion estimation combining ...

Remotely sensed data offer new opportunities for up-to-date and large-scale forest monitoring and for enhancing NFI estimates. However, despite the huge ...

Mapping land cover and estimating forest structure using satellite ...

In this study, we use cloud free image mosaics of panchromatic sharpened Landsat ETM+ images and decision tree classification software to map land cover and ...

Remote sensing of land change: A multifaceted perspective

Remote sensing data with a higher spatial resolution are generally preferred as the input for change detection, as the higher the spatial ...

Remote Sensing Tools for Monitoring Forests and Tracking Their ...

Remote sensing augments field data and facilitates foresight required for forest ... used to measure and map boreal forest AGB, including ...

Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National ...

Globally, forests are a crucial natural resource, and their sound management is critical for human and ecosystem health and well-being. Efforts to manage ...

Remote sensing based forest cover classification using machine ...

These models prove beneficial in precisely estimating aboveground biomass and measuring Canopy Height in homogeneous areas. The forest parameter ...

Forest definitions require a re-think - Nature

Remote sensing is critical to forest monitoring in support of policy frameworks (Box 2). ... Following an assessment of tree cover change, ...

ARSET - Forest Mapping and Monitoring with SAR Data

Radar remote sensing overcomes these challenges because of its ability to “see” the surface through clouds and regardless of day or night ...

Stratified estimation of forest area using satellite imagery, inventory ...

These measurements further served as calibration data for a k-Nearest Neighbors technique that was used to predict forest land proportion for image pixels.

Current remote sensing approaches to monitoring forest ...

Interferometric SAR and LiDAR have found new application in linking forest structure change to degradation in tropical forests. Estimates of AGB ...

Remote Sensing Estimates of Boreal and Temperate Forest Woody ...

Consis- tent with previous uses of remotely sensed data, we define forests to include the following remote sensing land covers. (Hansen, DeFries, Townshend, & ...

Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and ...

Abstract. Remote sensing has developed into an omnipresent technology in the scientific field of forestry and is also increasingly used in ...

Comparison of forest cover estimates using remote sensing and ...

In this study, forest cover estimates for the United States from a recently developed land surface cover map generated from satellite remote sensing data were ...

Forest Cover Estimation in Ireland Using Radar Remote Sensing

Increasing levels of post classification filtering led to a decrease in estimated forest area and an increase in overall accuracy of SAR-derived forest cover ...

Landsat's Role in Ecological Applications of Remote Sensing

Remote sensing enabled scientists to spatially reference their plots to images showing the land-cover and landform context of their data. Because Landsat data ...

Using remotely sensed data to construct and assess forest attribute ...

Use of national forest inventory plot data reduces costs by taking advantage of an existing data collection effort, and the probability sampling designs ...