Plant species discrimination in a tropical wetland using in situ hyperspectral data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8494-8523

  Prospere, Kurt ^a   McLaren, Kurt ^a   Wilson, Byron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Derivative spectra; Feature selection; Generalized linear model fitted with elastic net penalties; Spectral vegetation indices; Tropical wetland

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVE SPECTRA; ELASTIC NET; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; PLANT SPECIES; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES; TROPICAL WETLAND;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84907459255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098494     Document Type: Article

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