Fusing optical and radar data to estimate sagebrush, herbaceous, and bare ground cover in Yellowstone

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-264

  Huang, Shengli ^a,b   Potter, Christopher ^a   Crabtree, Robert L ^b,c   Hager, Stacey ^c   Gross, Peggy ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Yellowstone Ecological Research Center   (United States)

^c HyPerspectives Inc   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Percentage cover; Remote sensing; Sagebrush; SAR; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ANTENNA PATTERN; BARE GROUNDS; BARE LANDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; ELEVATION DATA; FORAGE PRODUCTION; FORESTED AREA; GRASS ECOSYSTEM; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER; LANDSAT; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL DATA; RADAR DATA; RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM; RANGELAND MONITORING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SEMI ARID; SPACE-BORNE; STUDY AREAS; TASSELED CAP; VEGETATION COMPONENTS; VEGETATION COVER; WESTERN UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARKS; YELLOWSTONES;

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; DATA FUSION; ECOSYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PARKS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); VEGETATION;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

GROUND COVER; LANDSAT; OPTICAL METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; RANGELAND; SHRUB; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 71549173731     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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