Spectral discrimination of insect defoliation levels in mopane woodland using hyperspectral data

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

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 177-186

  Adelabu, Samuel ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Adam, Elhadi ^a   Sebego, Reuben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

ANOVA; defoliation; hyperspectral; mopane woodland; random forest

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; FEATURE ELIMINATION METHOD; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MOPANE WOODLAND; PRE-FILTERING APPROACH; RANDOM FORESTS;

DECISION TREES; OPTIMIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEFOLIATION; FOREST CANOPY; INSECT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

COLOPHOSPERMUM MOPANE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84891835408     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2258329     Document Type: Article

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