Investigating the capability of few strategically placed worldview-2 multispectral bands to discriminate forest species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 307-316

  Peerbhay, Kabir Yunus ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Ismail, Riyad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Commercial forest species classification; Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS DA); Variable importance in the projection (VIP); WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; FOREST SPECIES; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES DISCRIMINANT ANALYSES (PLSDA); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES; WORLDVIEW-2;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANGIOSPERM; CLASSIFICATION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVERGREEN TREE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACACIA MEARNSII; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; EUCALYPTUS SMITHII; PINUS PATULA;

EID: 84891710741     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2262634     Document Type: Article

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