Incorporating texture into classification of forest species composition from airborne multispectral images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-79

  Franklin, S E ^a   Hall, R J ^b   Moskal, L M ^a   Maudie, A J ^a   Lavigne, M B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; TEXTURE;

CANADA;

EID: 0034627794     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210993     Document Type: Article

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