Fine-scale remotely-sensed cover mapping of coastal dune and salt marsh ecosystems at Cape Cod National Seashore using Random Forests

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2012, Pages 106-117

  Timm, Brad C ^a   McGarigal, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dune; Fine scale; Mapping; Random Forests; Remote sensing; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION RATES; COASTAL DUNE; DUNE; ERRORS OF COMMISSIONS; FINE-SCALE; FORWARD SELECTION; GLOBAL MODELS; HISTORY OF USE; HOLDOUT VALIDATION; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PIXEL RESOLUTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RANDOM FORESTS; SALT MARSH ECOSYSTEM; SALT MARSHES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; STUDY AREAS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VARIABLE REDUCTION METHOD;

BEACHES; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

WETLANDS;

ALGORITHM; COASTAL ZONE; DUNE; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; NATURAL RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SALTMARSH; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866522698     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.033     Document Type: Article

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