Extracting forest age in a Pacific Northwest forest from thematic mapper and topographic data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-140

  Kimes, Dan S ^a   Holben, B N ^a   Nickeson, J E ^b   McKee, W A ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK PROPAGATION; DTM; FOREST AGE; LANDSAT TM; NEURAL NETWORK; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

USA, OREGON, WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST, BLUE RIVER RANGER DISTRICT;

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FOREST AGE; THEMATIC MAPPER; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030131623     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00230-8     Document Type: Article

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