Use of lidar data to aid in discriminating and mapping plant communities in tidal marshes of the lower Connecticut River: Preliminary results

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Annual Conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2006: Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1108-1115

  Prisloe, Sandy ^a   Wilson, Emily ^a   Civco, Daniel L ^a   Hurd, James D ^a   Gilmore, Martha S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE IMAGERY; COASTAL AREA; DATA SETS; ECOGNITION; HEIGHT CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIDAR DATA; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT SPECIES; PURE STANDS; QUICKBIRD; QUICKBIRD IMAGERIES; QUICKBIRD SATELLITE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; TIDAL MARSHES; TIDAL WETLANDS; TRANSITION ZONES; UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT; VEGETATION COMMUNITY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; WETLANDS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84869030119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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