Supervised classification of landsat thematic mapper imagery in a semi- arid rangeland by nonparametric discriminant analysis

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-86

  Knick, Steven T ^a   Rotenberry, John T ^b   Zarriello, Thomas J ^a  

^a National Biological Service   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT TM; NON-PARAMETRIC DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PIXEL; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUBLAND; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION CLASS;

USA, IDAHO, SNAKE RIVER PLAINS;

EID: 0030621386     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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