Estimation of canopy nitrogen concentration across c3 and c4 grasslands using worldview-2 multispectral data

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

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4385-4392

  Adjorlolo, Clement ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^b   Cho, Moses A ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Grass nitrogen content; random forests (RFs); remote sensing; worldview 2 (WV2)

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; REMOTE SENSING;

MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN CONTENT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RANDOM FORESTS; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES; WORLDVIEW-2;

NITROGEN;

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CANOPY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRASSLAND; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NDVI; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WORLDVIEW;

DRAKENSBERG;

FESTUCA; POACEAE; THEMEDA TRIANDRA;

EID: 84921023999     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2320601     Document Type: Article

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