Estimating species abundance in a northern temperate forest using spectral mixture analysis

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 829-840

  Plourde, Lucie C ^a   Ollinger, Scott V ^a   Smith, Marie Louise ^b   Martin, Mary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; SENSORS;

HABITAT QUALITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT QUALITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; SENSORS;

BARTLETT EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST;

ACER SACCHARUM; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA;

EID: 34347380005     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.73.7.829     Document Type: Article

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