A comparative analysis of high spatial resolution IKONOS and WorldView-2 imagery for mapping urban tree species

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 516-533

  Pu, Ruiliang ^a   Landry, Shawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees; IKONOS; Linear discriminant analysis; Object based image analysis; Stepwise masking system; Urban trees; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; IKONOS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MASKING SYSTEMS; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; URBAN TREES; WORLDVIEW-2;

MAPPING; PHENOLS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IKONOS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN FORESTRY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PHENOLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TREES;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; TAMPA; UNITED STATES;

CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA; DRYOBALANOPS; MAGNOLIA; MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA; MAGNOLIACEAE; QUERCUS GEMINATA; QUERCUS IMBRICARIA; QUERCUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 84863422450     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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