Evaluating an intra-annual time series for grassland classification - How many acquisitions and what seasonal origin are optimal?

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

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3428-3439

  Schmidt, Tobias ^a   Schuster, Christian ^b   Kleinschmit, Birgit ^a   Förster, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Classification; Habitats directive (HabDir); Multitemporal; NATURA 2000; Phenology; RapidEye; Seminatural grassland vegetation; Significance analysis; Support vector machine (SVM); Time series; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIME SERIES;

HABITATS DIRECTIVES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NATURA 2000; PHENOLOGY; RAPIDEYE; SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLANDS; SIGNIFICANCE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

BIODIVERSITY;

ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84908004652     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2347203     Document Type: Article

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