Assessment of Above-Ground Biomass of Borneo Forests through a New Data-Fusion Approach Combining Two Pan-Tropical Biomass Maps
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Identification of Land Cover Changes and Data-Fusion Processing
2.3. Model Selection
2.4. Spatial Analysis
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Comparison of Different Data-Fusion Models
3.2. Analysis of AGB Results for Borneo and Comparison with Literature Values
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Langner, A.; Achard, F.; Vancutsem, C.; Pekel, J.-F.; Simonetti, D.; Grassi, G.; Kitayama, K.; Nakayama, M. Assessment of Above-Ground Biomass of Borneo Forests through a New Data-Fusion Approach Combining Two Pan-Tropical Biomass Maps. Land 2015, 4, 656-669. https://doi.org/10.3390/land4030656
Langner A, Achard F, Vancutsem C, Pekel J-F, Simonetti D, Grassi G, Kitayama K, Nakayama M. Assessment of Above-Ground Biomass of Borneo Forests through a New Data-Fusion Approach Combining Two Pan-Tropical Biomass Maps. Land. 2015; 4(3):656-669. https://doi.org/10.3390/land4030656
Chicago/Turabian StyleLangner, Andreas, Frédéric Achard, Christelle Vancutsem, Jean-Francois Pekel, Dario Simonetti, Giacomo Grassi, Kanehiro Kitayama, and Mikiyasu Nakayama. 2015. "Assessment of Above-Ground Biomass of Borneo Forests through a New Data-Fusion Approach Combining Two Pan-Tropical Biomass Maps" Land 4, no. 3: 656-669. https://doi.org/10.3390/land4030656