Spectral resampling based on user-defined inter-band correlation filter: C3 and C4 grass species classification

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 535-544

  Adjorlolo, Clement ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Cho, Moses A ^a,b   Ismail, Riyad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Grass species classification; Inter band correlation; Random forests; Spectral resampling

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CORRELATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

HYPERION;

EID: 84872771187     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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