Estimating life-form cover fractions in California sage scrub communities using multispectral remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3056-3068

  Hamada, Yuki ^a,b   Stow, Douglas A ^b   Roberts, Dar A ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological integrity; Fractional cover; Mediterranean type ecosystems; Plant life forms; Remote sensing; Sage scrub communities

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACCURATE PREDICTION; BARE GROUNDS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH; COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION; COVER TYPES; DATA COSTS; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ERROR MAGNITUDE; FIELD SAMPLING; FIELD-BASED DATA; FRACTIONAL COVER; HABITAT QUALITY; HERB COVER; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; INFORMATION GAP; MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE ECOSYSTEMS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PAN-SHARPENED; PLANT LIFE; PROCESSING MODEL; QUICKBIRD; SAMPLING GRIDS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECTRAL MIXTURE MODEL; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; VEGETATION TYPE;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIODIVERSITY; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCESSING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HERB; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGERY; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUICKBIRD; SCRUB; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPOT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

SALVIA COLUMBARIAE COLUMBARIAE;

EID: 81355161423     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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