Mapping spatial distribution of larch plantations from multi-seasonal landsat-8 OLI imagery and multi-scale textures using random forests

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1702-1720

  Gao, Tian ^a,b   Zhu, Jiaojun ^a,b   Zheng, Xiao ^a,b   Shang, Guiduo ^a,b,c   Huang, Liyan ^a,b,c   Wu, Shangrong ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Forest type classification; Larch plantations; Multi seasonal imageries; Random forests; Texture; Variable assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FOREST TYPE; LARCH PLANTATIONS; MULTI-SEASONAL IMAGERIES; RANDOM FORESTS; VARIABLE ASSESSMENT;

TEXTURES;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARIX; PLANTATIONS; TEXTURE;

EID: 84928796485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201702     Document Type: Article

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