Benefits of hyperspectral remote sensing for tracking plant invasions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 381-392

  He, Kate S ^a   Rocchini, Duccio ^b   Neteler, Markus ^b   Nagendra, Harini ^c,d  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Biochemical and physiological properties; Phenological change; Plant invasion; Predictive models; Spatial and spectral resolutions; Species spatial spread; Spectral signature

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DETECTION METHOD; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TRADE-OFF;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953790671     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00761.x     Document Type: Review

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