Mapping two Eucalyptus subgenera using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis and continuum-removed imaging spectrometry data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1115-1128

  Youngentob, Kara N ^a   Roberts, Dar A ^b   Held, Alex A ^c   Dennison, Philip E ^d   Jia, Xiuping ^e   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Continuum removal; Ecology; Eucalyptus; Forest; Habitat mapping; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectroscopy; MESMA; Plant functional type

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONTINUUM-REMOVAL; EUCALYPTUS; FOREST; HABITAT MAPPING; HYPERSPECTRAL; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; MESMA; PLANT FUNCTIONAL-TYPE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE MATCHING; PIXELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PHOTOMAPPING;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FOREST CANOPY; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; OPTIMIZATION; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EUCALYPTUS; SYMPHYOMYRTUS;

EID: 79952069958     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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