Continuous fields from imaging spectrometer data for ecosystem parameter mapping and their potential for animal habitat assessment in alpine regions

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2600-2610

  Kneubuhler, Mathias ^a   Damm, Alexander ^a   Schweiger, Anna Katharina ^b   Risch, Anita C ^c   Schutz, Martin ^c   Schaepman, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss National Park   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging spectroscopy; continuous field mapping; ecosystem; land cover; vegetation; water content

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FORESTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE WATERS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

AIRBORNE IMAGING; AIRBORNE PRISM EXPERIMENTS; CONTINUOUS FIELDS; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STATUS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETER; SPECTROSCOPY; UNGULATE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

GRAUBUNDEN; SWISS NATIONAL PARK; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA IBEX; CERVUS ELAPHUS; RUPICAPRA RUPICAPRA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84905921381     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2323574     Document Type: Article

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