Estimating basal area of spruce and fir in post-fire residual stands in Central Siberia using Quickbird, feature selection, and random forests

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 2386-2395

  Jung, Martin ^a   Tautenhahn, Susanne ^a   Wirth, Christian ^b   Kattge, Jens ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal area; Boreal; Feature selection; Quickbird; Residual stands; Siberia; Topography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896939297     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2013.05.410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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