Discriminating Forest Successional Stages, Forest Degradation, and Land Use in Central Amazon Using ALOS/PALSAR-2 Full-Polarimetric Data

We discriminated different successional forest stages, forest degradation, and land use classes in the Tapajós National Forest (TNF), located in the Central Brazilian Amazon. We used full polarimetric images from ALOS/PALSAR-2 that have not yet been tested for land use and land cover (LULC) classifi...

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Published in:	Remote Sensing
Main Authors:	Natalia C. Wiederkehr, Fabio F. Gama, Paulo B. N. Castro, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Heiko Balzter, Edson E. Sano, Veraldo Liesenberg, João R. Santos, José C. Mura
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Subjects:	Brazil Amazon forest land use land cover forest degradation
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/21/3512

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