Image classification of a northern peatland complex using spectral and plant community data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-99

  Thomas, Valerie ^a   Treitz, Paul ^a   Jelinski, Dennis ^a   Miller, John ^b   Lafleur, Peter ^c   McCaughey, J Harry ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

SIGNATURE SEPARABILITY ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 0037211212     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00099-8     Document Type: Article

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