A technique for estimating rangeland canopy-gap size distributions from high-resolution digital imagery

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-207

  Karl, Jason W ^a   Duniway, Michael C ^a,b   Schrader, T Scott ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

digital aerial photography; image classification; photo interpretation; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CANOPY; CLIMATIC REGION; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PIXEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858965035     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00006.1     Document Type: Article

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