Assessing changes of forest area and shrub encroachment in a mire ecosystem using digital surface models and CIR aerial images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1956-1968

  Waser, L T ^a   Baltsavias, E ^b   Ecker, K ^a   Eisenbeiss, H ^b   Feldmeyer Christe, E ^a   Ginzler, C ^a   Kuchler M ^a   Zhang, L ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Change detection; Fractional tree shrub cover; General Linear Model; LiDAR; Multi image matching; Swiss Mire Protection Program

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; IMAGE MATCHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

AERIAL IMAGES; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CANOPY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MIRE; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SHRUB;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 41449092362     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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