Mapping freshwater marsh species distributions using WorldView-2 high-resolution multispectral satellite imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4698-4716

  Carle, Melissa Vernon ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a   Sasser, Charles E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PHOTOMAPPING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VEGETATION; WATER; WETLANDS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITES; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFICATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COASTAL ZONE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; MARSH; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 84904962431     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.919685     Document Type: Article

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