Mapping vegetation in a heterogeneous mountain rangeland using landsat data: An alternative method to define and classify land-cover units

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-97

  Cingolani, Ana M ^a   Renison, Daniel ^a,b   Zak, Marcelo R ^a   Cabido, Marcelo R ^a  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Discriminant Functions; Heterogeneous areas; Land cover mapping; Maximum Likelihood; Principal Component Analysis; Rangeland; Supervised classification; Vegetable mosaics

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

LANDSAT DATA; MID-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 3242688826     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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