Performance of habitat suitability models for the endangered black-capped vireo built with remotely-sensed data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-42

  Wilsey, Chad B ^a   Lawler, Joshua J ^a   Cimprich, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fort Hood Military Reservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial altimetry; Aerial imagery; Black capped vireo; Cforest; LiDAR; Variable importance; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ALTIMETRY; AERIAL IMAGERY; BLACK-CAPPED VIREO; CFOREST; VARIABLE IMPORTANCE;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RADAR; SOILS; TEACHING; VEGETATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BOOTSTRAPPING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LIDAR; PASSERINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

FORT HOOD; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

VIREO; VIREO ATRICAPILLUS; VIREONIDAE;

EID: 84855779512     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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