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A near-real time forest-cover map of Madagascar derived from SPOT-4 VEGETATION data
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Earth ObservationEnvironmental MonitoringEngineeringForest BiometricsForestryLand CoverEarth System ScienceTerrestrial SensingEarth ScienceSocial SciencesBiogeographySpot-4 Vegetation DataNear-real Time MappingCloud DecontaminationCartographyGeographyEarth Observation DataLand Cover MapDeforestationRemote SensingCover MappingForest Inventory
Using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data for near-real time mapping is new. In this Letter, a robust technique for cloud decontamination of the ten-day composites is presented. A forest-cover map of Madagascar is derived from monthly images from October 1998 to September 1999 with a user's accuracy of 87.8%.