Individual urban tree species classification using very high spatial resolution airborne multi-spectral imagery using longitudinal profiles

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1741-1757

  Zhang, Kongwen ^a   Hu, Baoxin ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision trees; High spatial resolution; Longitudinal profiles; Multi spectral; Trees species; Urban

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; MULTI-SPECTRAL; TREES SPECIES; URBAN;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

DECISION TREES;

CITIES; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION THEORY; ONTARIO; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TREES;

EID: 84864999740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4061741     Document Type: Article

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