Discrimination of invaded and native species sites in a semi-desert grassland using MODIS multi-temporal data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 897-917

  Huang, C ^a   Geiger, E L ^b   Van Leeuwen, W J D ^c   Marsh, S E ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; INFRARED DEVICES; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

HERBACEOUS SPECIES; LARGE SPATIAL SCALE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; NEAR INFRA-RED REFLECTANCES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES;

RADIOMETERS;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; MODIS; NATIVE SPECIES; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; POACEAE;

EID: 67650684277     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802395243     Document Type: Article

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