Mapping Sub-Antarctic Cushion Plants Using Random Forests to Combine Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Terrain Modelling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Bricher, Phillippa K ^a,b   Lucieer, Arko ^a   Shaw, Justine ^b,c   Terauds, Aleks ^b,c   Bergstrom, Dana M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AZORELLA MACQUARIENSIS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; RANDOM FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; ISLANDS; PLANTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONS; TREES;

EID: 84881108412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072093     Document Type: Article

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