Geostatistical and texture analysis of airborne-acquired images used in forest classification

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 859-865

  Zhang, Chengqian ^a   Franklin, Steven E ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

FOREST CLASSIFICATION; SPECTRAL RESPONSE PATTERNS;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1542442234     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001618059     Document Type: Article

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