Applications of remote sensing to alien invasive plant studies

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4869-4889

  Huang, Cho ying ^a,b   Asner, Gregory P ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; High spatial resolution; High temporal resolution; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Image fusion; Light detection and ranging (lidar); Moderate spatial spectral resolution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING;

ECOLOGY; IMAGE FUSION; OPTICAL RADAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 77955340434     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90604869     Document Type: Review

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