Modelling herbivore grazing resources using hyperspectral remote sensing and GIS

Proceedings 2005 - The 8th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Mutanga, Onnie ^a   Schmidt, Karin ^a   Ferwerda, Jelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analysis; Ecology; Hyper spectral; Imagery

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEDIUM; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORAGE QUALITY; HERBIVORE GROWTH; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; IMAGERY; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN CONTENT; PLANT SPECIES; QUALITY OF FORAGE; RED EDGE;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REMOTE SENSING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874271180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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