Remote sensing techniques for forest parameter assessment: Multispectral classification and linear spectral mixture analysis

Silva Fennica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 441-456

  Vohland, Michael ^a   Stoffels, Johannes ^a   Hau, Christina ^a   Schüler, Gebhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry FAWF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linear spectral mixture analysis; Multispectral classification; Picea abies; Remote sensing; Stand variables; Stem number

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; STAND VARIABLES; STEM NUMBER;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PICEA ABIES; REMOTE SENSING;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 36448952292     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.471     Document Type: Article

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