Semi-supervised methods to identify individual crowns of lowland tropical canopy species using imaging spectroscopy and lidar

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2457-2476

  Féret, Jean Baptiste ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canopy height; Carnegie airborne observatory; Hyperspectral imagery; Lidar intensity; Pecies mapping; Semi supervised classification; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

CANOPY HEIGHTS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY; LIDAR INTENSITIES; SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL RADAR;

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84868240462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4082457     Document Type: Article

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