Combining geostatistical models and remotely sensed data to improve tropical tree richness mapping

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1046-1056

  Hernández Stefanoni, J Luis ^a   Alberto Gallardo Cruz, J ^b   Meave, Jorge A ^b   Dupuy, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Co kriging; Image texture; Kriging with external drift; Regression kriging; Tree richness; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CO-KRIGING; IMAGE TEXTURE; KRIGING WITH EXTERNAL DRIFTS; REGRESSION KRIGING; TREE RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURES; TROPICS;

INTERPOLATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIODIVERSITY; GEOSTATISTICS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; KRIGING; LANDSAT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ESTIMATION; EXTRACTIVES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURE; TREES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICS;

EID: 79955807813     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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