Spectroscopic determination of aboveground biomass in grasslands using spectral transformations, support vector machine and partial least squares regression

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 10027-10051

  Marabel, Miguel ^a   Alvarez Taboada, Flor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Area Over the Minimum; Biomass; Continuum removal; Hyperspectral; Maximum Band Depth; OLSR; PLSR; Radiometry; Spectrometer; SVM

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA HANDLING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS;

AREA OVER THE MINIMUM; BAND DEPTHS; CONTINUUM REMOVAL; HYPERSPECTRAL; OLSR; PLSR; SVM;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84922993215     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130810027     Document Type: Article

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