Discriminating the papyrus vegetation (Cyperus papyrus L.) and its co-existent species using random forest and Hyperspectral data resampled to HYMAP

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 552-569

  Adam, E M ^a,b   Mutanga, O ^a   Rugege, D ^a   Ismail, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Elfashir University   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; INFRARED RADIATION;

ANALYTICAL SPECTRAL DEVICES; CANOPY REFLECTANCE SPECTRA; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; ECHINOCHLOA PYRAMIDALIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT;

WETLANDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; COEXISTENCE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SWAMP; VEGETATION COVER; WAVELENGTH; WETLAND;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; PAPYRUS; WAVE LENGTHS; WETLANDS;

CYPERUS PAPYRUS; ECHINOCHLOA PYRAMIDALIS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; THELYPTERIS INTERRUPTA;

EID: 82155171319     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.543182     Document Type: Article

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