Integrating remote sensing and ancillary data for regional ecosystem assessment: Eucalyptus grandis agro-system in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 264-267

  Cho, Moses ^a   Van Aardt, Jan ^b   Main, Russell ^a   Majeke, Bongani ^a   Ramoelo, Abel ^a   Mathieu, Renaud ^a   Norris Rogers, Mark ^c   Du Plessis, Marius ^c  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Mondi Business Paper   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Forestry; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Spectral indices

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; NUTRIENTS;

AVAILABLE NUTRIENTS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; INTEGRATED MODELLING APPROACH; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPECTRAL INDICES;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 77951269785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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