Monitoring the distribution and dynamics of an invasive grass in tropical savanna using airborne LiDAR

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5117-5132

  Levick, Shaun R ^a   Setterfield, Samantha A ^b   Rossiter Rachor, Natalie A ^b   Hutley, Lindsay B ^b   McMaster, Damien ^b   Hacker, Jorg M ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alien plant; Gamba grass; Invasion; LiDAR; Weed mapping

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING;

ALIEN PLANTS; GAMBA GRASS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; INVASION; MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; WEED MAPPINGS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84930035735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505117     Document Type: Article

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