Discrimination of lianas and trees with leaf-level hyperspectral data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 353-372

  Castro Esau, K L ^a   Sanchez Azofeifa G A ^a   Caelli, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Hyperspectral; Lianas; Spectrometer; Trees; Tropical dry forest; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

TROPICAL FORESTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTROMETER; TROPICAL FOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 1842483844     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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