Detection of cypress canopies in the florida panhandle using subpixel analysis and GIS

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1028-1042

  Wang, Jialing ^a   Lang, Paul A ^b  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cypress; Florida Panhandle; Subpixel analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CYPRESS; FLORIDA; LANDSAT-7 ETM+; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SUB-PIXEL ANALYSIS; SUB-PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; TALLAHASSEE;

EID: 80051706698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1041028     Document Type: Article

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