Image texture as a remotely sensed measure of vegetation structure

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 516-526

  Wood, Eric M ^a   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Keuler, Nicholas S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Band 4; Foliage height diversity; Horizontal vegetation structure; Image texture; Infrared air photo; Landsat; NDVI; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

BAND 4; FOLIAGE-HEIGHT DIVERSITY; LANDSAT; NDVI; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE TEXTURE; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURES;

VEGETATION;

CORRELATION; DATA SET; HABITAT TYPE; HEIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; NDVI; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860317335     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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