Ecological fingerprinting of ecosystem succession: Estimating secondary tropical dry forest structure and diversity using imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-96

  Kalacska, M ^a   Sanchez Azofeifa, G A ^a   Rivard, B ^a   Caelli, T ^b   White, H Peter ^d   Calvo Alvarado, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^d CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass; Costa Rica; Holdridge Complexity Index; Hyperion; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Neural network; Structure; Tropical dry forest; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

HOLDRIDGE COMPLEXITY INDEX; HYPERION STRUCTURE; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL DRY FOREST;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST DYNAMICS; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROSCOPY; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

HYPERION;

EID: 34047253781     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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