Habitat reporting of a heathland site: Classification probabilities as additional information, a case study

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 248-255

  Hufkens, Koen ^a   Thoonen, Guy ^a   Vanden Borre, Jeroen ^b   Scheunders, Paul ^b   Ceulemans, Reinhart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Hyperspectral; Patch; Remote sensing; Uncertainty; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HEATHLAND; HETEROGENEITY; PROBABILITY; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM;

EID: 77954757310     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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