Chapter Above‐Ground Biomass Estimation with High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images

Assessment and monitoring of forest biomass are frequently done with allometric functions per species for inventory plots. The estimation per area unit is carried out with an extrapolation method. In this chapter, a review of the recent methods to estimate forest above‐ground biomass (AGB) using rem...

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Main Author: Cristina Gonçalves, Ana (auth)
Other Authors: Sousa, Adélia (auth), Marques daSilva, José R. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: InTechOpen 2017
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