Classifying tropical deciduous vegetation: A comparison of multiple approaches in Popa mountain park, Myanmar

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8935-8948

  Htun, Naing Zaw ^a   Mizoue, Nobuya ^a   Yoshida, Shigejiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH PROCESSING; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OVERALL ACCURACIES; RULE-BASED METHOD; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

SURVEYING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASTER; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING METHOD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NDVI; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE;

EMISSION; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SURVEYING; TROPICS;

MYANMAR;

EID: 82155179345     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.531779     Document Type: Article

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