The classification of late seral forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA using Landsat ETM+ imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 320-331

  Jiang, Hong ^a,b   Strittholt, James R ^a   Frost, Pamela A ^a   Slosser, Nicholas C ^a  

^a Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conifer forest; Landsat ETM+; Pacific Northwest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAPPING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLUSTER BUSTING; CONIFER FORESTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CLASSIFICATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MATURATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 2942733646     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.03.016     Document Type: Article

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