Multivariate correlations between imagery and field measurements across scales: Comparing pixel aggregation and image segmentation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 591-605

  Karl, Jason W ^a,b,c   Maurer, Brian A ^b  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation; Idaho; Ikonos; Landsat; Multi scale analysis; Object based image analysis; Remote sensing; Scale

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FIELD METHOD; IKONOS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; VARIOGRAM;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 77950594597     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9439-4     Document Type: Article

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