Ecological site classification of semiarid rangelands: Synergistic use of Landsat and Hyperion imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-21

  Blanco, Paula D ^a   del Valle, Héctor F ^a   Bouza, Pablo J ^a   Metternicht, Graciela I ^b   Hardtke, Leonardo A ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological site; Endmember selection; Hyperion; Land management; Logistic regression; Mixture tuned matched filtering; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; HYPERION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LOGISTICS; PIXEL; RANGELAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

EID: 84897499577     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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