Mapping tropical forest canopy diversity using high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1289-1296

  Féret, Jean Baptiste ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Amazon basin; Beta diversity; Bray Curtis dissimilarity; Canopy diversity; Carnegie airborne observatory; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Shannon index; Spectral species distribution

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

PERU;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PERU; PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PERU; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84903296277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1824.1     Document Type: Article

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