Estimating vegetation beta diversity from airborne imaging spectroscopy and unsupervised clustering

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2057-2071

  Baldeck, Claire A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Bray Curtis; Carnegie Airborne Observatory; Hyperspectral; K means clustering; Kruger National Park; LiDAR; Savanna; Spectral variation hypothesis; Support vector machine; Unsupervised

Indexed keywords

BETA DIVERSITIES; BRAY-CURTIS; CARNEGIE AIRBORNE OBSERVATORIES; HYPERSPECTRAL; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; NATIONAL PARKS; SAVANNA; SPECTRAL VARIATION; UNSUPERVISED;

BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84880377809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052057     Document Type: Article

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