Object-based detailed vegetation classification with airborne high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 799-811

  Yu, Qian ^a   Gong, Peng ^a,b,c   Clinton, Nick ^a   Biging, Greg ^a   Kelly, Maggi ^a   Schirokauer, Dave ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Point Reyes National Seashore   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARKS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

IMAGE OBJECTS; PIXEL-BASED APPROACHES; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745615125     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.7.799     Document Type: Article

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