The use of hyperspectral remote sensing to assess vascular plant species richness on Horn Island, Mississippi

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3908-3915

  Lucas, Kelly L ^a   Carter, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier island; Biodiversity; HyMap; Hyperspectral; Plant species richness; Reflectance indices; Soil exposure; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FOOD PROCESSING; FORESTRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LANDFORMS; OCEAN HABITATS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

BARRIER ISLAND; BIODIVERSITY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; GROUND SAMPLE DISTANCE; GULF OF MEXICO; HYMAP; HYPER-SPECTRAL DATA; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE DATA; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; IN PLANTS; MISSISSIPPI; PLANT SPECIES; PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS; REFLECTANCE INDICES; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; SOIL EXPOSURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL INDICES; VASCULAR PLANT SPECIES;

ECOLOGY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BARRIER ISLAND; BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT TYPE; MARSH; MEADOW; MOISTURE CONTENT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TESTING METHOD; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

HORN ISLAND [MISSISSIPPI]; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 50849084438     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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