Does using species abundance data improve estimates of species diversity from remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 390-396

  Oldeland, Jens ^a,c   Wesuls, Dirk ^a   Rocchini, Duccio ^b   Schmidt, Michael ^c   Jürgens, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral; Savannah; Scale; Shannon Index; Species richness; Spectral variation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

HYPERSPECTRAL; SAVANNAH; SCALE; SHANNON INDEX; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECTRAL VARIATION HYPOTHESIS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE INDEX; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70449102851     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.07.012     Document Type: Article

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