National Park vegetation mapping using multitemporal Landsat 7 data and a decision tree classifier

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 316-327

  Brown De Colstoun, Eric C ^a   Story, Michael H ^b   Thompson, Craig ^b   Commisso, Kathy ^b   Smith, Timothy G ^b   Irons, James R ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Landsat 7; National Park

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FORESTRY; SATELLITES;

VEGETATION MAPPING;

VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NATIONAL PARK; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

PLANTS; SATELLITES;

NEW JERSEY; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038713419     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00010-5     Document Type: Article

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