Predicting tropical dry forest successional attributes from space: Is the key hidden in image texture?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gallardo Cruz, J Alberto ^a   Meave, Jorge A ^a   González, Edgar J ^a   Lebrija Trejos, Edwin E ^b,d   Romero Romero, Marco A ^a   Pérez García, Eduardo A ^a   Gallardo Cruz, Rodrigo ^a   Hernández Stefanoni, José Luis ^c   Martorell, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERE; CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOW; FOREST STAND; PLANT DENSITY; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DESICCATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEXICO; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; DESICCATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84857402356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030506     Document Type: Article

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