Operational tree species mapping in a diverse tropical forest with airborne imaging spectroscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Baldeck, Claire A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Martin, Robin E ^a   Anderson, Christopher B ^a   Knapp, David E ^a   Kellner, James R ^b   Wright, S Joseph ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BIASED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; BINARY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERYX PANAMENSIS; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HANDROANTHUS GUAYACAN; JACARANDA COPAIA; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TAXONOMY; TREE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GEOGRAPHY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ISLANDS; PANAMA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84941308996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118403     Document Type: Article

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