Discrimination of vegetation types in alpine sites with ALOS PALSAR-, RADARSAT-2-, and lidar-derived information

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6898-6913

  Vaglio Laurin, Gaia ^a,d   Del Frate, Fabio ^a   Pasolli, Luca ^b   Notarnicola, Claudia ^b   Guerriero, Leila ^a   Valentini, Riccardo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM; OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING SENSORS; VEGETATION MONITORING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ALOS; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA QUALITY; EUROPEAN UNION; LIDAR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RADARSAT; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84880162969     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.810823     Document Type: Article

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