Field spectrometry of papyrus vegetation (Cyperus papyrus L.) in swamp wetlands of St Lucia, South Africa

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 260-263

  Elhadi, M I Adam ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Rugege, Denis ^a   Ismail, Riyad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Classification; Papyrus; Random forest; Variables selection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY;

ANALYTICAL SPECTRAL DEVICES; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ECHINOCHLOA PYRAMIDALIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; PAPYRUS; RANDOM FOREST ALGORITHM; RANDOM FORESTS; VARIABLES SELECTIONS;

WETLANDS;

EID: 77951260764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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