A spectral index for highlighting forest cover from remotely sensed imagery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9260, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ye, Wentao ^a   Li, Xi ^a   Chen, Xiaoling ^a   Zhang, Guo ^a  

^a Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

Author keywords

Forest cover mapping; Forest index; Landsat; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; MAPPING; PHOTOMAPPING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CLASSIFICATION MAPS; FOREST COVER; FOREST INDEX; LANDSAT; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION; COEFFICIENTS; FORESTS; IMAGES; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84922704792     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2068775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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