Differentiating plant species within and across diverse ecosystems with imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 167, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-151

  Roth, Keely L ^a   Roberts, Dar A ^b   Dennison, Philip E ^c   Alonzo, Michael ^b   Peterson, Seth H ^b   Beland, Michael ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVIRIS; Discriminant analysis; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectroscopy; MESMA; Plant species classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AVIRIS; HYPERSPECTRAL; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; MESMA; PLANT SPECIES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; AVIRIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84938966819     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.007     Document Type: Article

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