Enhancing a eucalypt crown condition indicator driven by high spatial and spectral resolution remote sensing imagery

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Evans, Bradley ^a,b   Lyons, Tom ^b   Barber, Paul ^b,c   Stone, Christine ^d   Hardy, Giles ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Arbor Carbon Environmental and Arborcultural Consultants   (Australia)

^d NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital multispectral imagery; Eucalyptus gomphocephala; High resolution; Random forest; Remote sensing; Tree crown condition; forest health; Tuart

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION TREES; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE OPTICS;

EUCALYPTUS GOMPHOCEPHALA; FOREST HEALTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; RANDOM FORESTS; TUART;

FORESTRY;

EUCALYPTUS GOMPHOCEPHALA; FORESTS; HEALTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY;

EID: 84889879456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.063605     Document Type: Article

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