Remote sensing as a tool for monitoring plant invasions: Testing the effects of data resolution and image classification approach on the detection of a model plant species Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed)

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-65

  Müllerová, Jana ^a   Pergl, Jan ^a   Pyšek, Petr ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment Historical aerial VHR photography; Invasion progress; Object based; Pixel based classification; Rapid Eye

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; PIXEL; PLANT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

HERACLEUM; HERACLEUM MANTEGAZZIANUM; HERACLEUM SPHONDYLIUM;

EID: 84883806914     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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