Using spectral and textural features from RapidEye images to estimate age and structural parameters of Cerrado vegetation

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3058-3076

  Gomes, Marília Ferreira ^a,b   Maillard, Philippe ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Cartography National Institute of Colonization and Land Reform   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CROWN CLOSURES; GREY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; MINAS GERAIS , BRAZIL; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; SAVANNAH BIOME; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TEXTURAL FEATURE; VEGETATION FORMATIONS;

REFORESTATION;

EID: 84934300451     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1055604     Document Type: Article

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