Employing ground and satellite-based QuickBird data and random forest to discriminate five tree species in a Southern African Woodland

Geocarto International

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 457-471

  Adelabu, Samuel ^a   Dube, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

hyperspectral; QuickBird; random forest; resampling; tree species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925259431     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2014.885589     Document Type: Article

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