Integrating in-situ, Landsat, and MODIS data for mapping in Southern African savannas: Experiences of LCCS-based land-cover mapping in the Kalahari in Namibia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 176, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 531-547

  Hüttich, Christian ^a   Herold, Martin ^b   Strohbach, Ben J ^c   Dech, Stefan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c National Botanical Research Institute   (Namibia)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Harmonization; Phenology; Random forest; Remote sensing; Standardization; Time series

Indexed keywords

BASELINE DATA; BHATTACHARYA DISTANCE; BROADLEAVED; CLASS ASSIGNMENTS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DOWN-SCALING; EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION; GROWING SEASON; HARMONIZATION; HERBACEOUS LAYER; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; INTERMEDIATE STAGE; KALAHARI; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGERY; LANDSAT SATELLITE; MAPPING ACCURACY; NAMIBIA; OBJECT-ORIENTED SEGMENTATION; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PHENOLOGY; RANDOM FORESTS; SAVANNA ECOSYSTEMS; SEMI ARID; SEPARABILITY ANALYSIS; SHRUBLANDS; SOIL CONDITIONS; SPECTRAL MAPPINGS; TRAINING DATA; TREE-BASED; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODY PLANTS;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; PHOTOMAPPING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; STANDARDIZATION; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIODIVERSITY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING; VEGETATION TYPE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; NAMIBIA; RANDOM FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STANDARDIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NAMIBIA;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 79954850750     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1602-5     Document Type: Article

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