Cover- and density-based vegetation classifications of the Sonoran Desert using Landsat TM and ERS-1 SAR imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 131-149

  Shupe, Scott M ^a,b   Marsh, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; ERS 1 SAR; Landsat TM; Maximum likelihood; Sonaran Desert; Vegetation cover; Vegetation density

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ECOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

REFLECTANCE SPECTRA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); VEGETATION MAPS;

VEGETATION;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ERS-1; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

CACTACEAE; SIGMOIDEA;

EID: 4544268283     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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