Mapping forest functional type in a forest-shrubland ecotone using SPOT imagery and predictive habitat distribution modelling

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 755-764

  Assal, Timothy J ^a,b   Anderson, Patrick J ^a   Sibold, Jason ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS; CLASSIFICATION RATES; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; HABITAT DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE;

FORESTRY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOREGION; ECOTONE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUBLAND; SPOT; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84940772809     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1072289     Document Type: Article

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