Mapping post-fire forest regeneration and vegetation recovery using a combination of very high spatial resolution and hyperspectral satellite imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-66

  Mitri, George H ^a   Gitas, Ioannis Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Forest regeneration; Hyperspectral imagery; Object based classification; Vegetation recovery; Very high spatial resolution imagery

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; REGENERATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; THASSOS;

HYPERION; PINUS BRUTIA; PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 84872821160     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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