Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage using a Fourier component based similarity measure

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Evans, J P ^a   Geerken, R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Discrete Fourier Transform; Functional vegetation groups; NDVI time series

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FOURIER COMPONENT; FUNCTIONAL VEGETATION GROUPS; NDVI TIME SERIES; RANGELAND VEGETATION;

VEGETATION;

FOURIER TRANSFORM; LAND COVER; NDVI; PIXEL; RANGELAND; SHRUB; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION TYPE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 33750061021     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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