Mapping tropical dry forest succession using multiple criteria spectral mixture analysis

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-29

  Cao, Sen ^a,b   Yu, Qiuyan ^b,c   Sanchez Azofeifa, Arturo ^a   Feng, Jilu ^a   Rivard, Benoit ^a   Gu, Zhujun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraction consistency; Root mean square error; Secondary tropical dry forest; Shortwave infrared; Spatial distance; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORESTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MIXTURES; PHOTOMAPPING; REFORESTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

FRACTION CONSISTENCY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SPATIAL DISTANCE; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL DRY FOREST;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DRY FOREST; ERROR ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PHYTOMASS; REMOTE SENSING; SECONDARY FOREST; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FORESTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

COSTA RICA; GUANACASTE; SANTA ROSA NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84941271547     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.08.009     Document Type: Article

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