Spectroscopic classification of tropical forest species using radiative transfer modeling

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2415-2422

  Féret, Jean Baptiste ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

4SAIL2; Humid tropical forest; Hyperspectral data; Leaf spectroscopy; Linear discriminant analysis; Model inversion; PROSPECT; Species discrimination; Spectranomics

Indexed keywords

4SAIL2; HUMID TROPICAL FOREST; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; LEAF SPECTROSCOPY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MODEL INVERSION; PROSPECT; SPECIES DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRANOMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOMAPPING; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

TROPICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LINEARITY; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TROPICS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958743653     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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