Evaluation and comparison of quickbird and ADS40-SH52 multispectral imagery for mapping iberian wild pear trees (Pyrus bourgaeana, Decne) in a mediterranean mixed forest

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1304-1330

  Arenas Castro, Salvador ^a   Fernández Haeger, Juan ^b   Jordano Barbudo, Diego ^b  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; ADS40 SH52 imagery; Iberian wild pear; Maximum likelihood; Mosaicing; Multispectral image; Pyrus bourgaeana; QuickBird imagery; Support vector machines; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FRUITS; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PIXELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VEGETATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADS40-SH52 IMAGERY; MOSAICING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; PYRUS BOURGAEANA; QUICKBIRD IMAGERIES; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILD PEARS;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOSPERM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION STATUS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; QUICKBIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILD POPULATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

PYRUS BOURGAEANA; PYRUS PYRASTER;

EID: 84902523026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5061304     Document Type: Article

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