A bottom-up approach to vegetation mapping of the Lake Tahoe Basin using hyperspatial image analysis

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 581-589

  Greenberg, Jonathan A ^a,b   Dobrowski, Solomon Z ^b   Ramirez, Carlos M ^c   Tull, Jahatel L ^b   Ustin, Susan L ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

HYPERSPATIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; PIXEL-BASED SPECIES CLASSIFICATION;

CATCHMENTS;

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

LAKE TAHOE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744929348     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.5.581     Document Type: Article

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