Discriminating saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima) from sparsely distributed cottonwood (Populus euphratica) using a summer season satellite image

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 795-806

  Ji, Wenjie ^a,b   Wang, Le ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; OBJECT-BASED METHODS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PIXEL BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; POPULUS EUPHRATICA; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DECIDUOUS TREE; FOLIAGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PIXEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUICKBIRD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SUMMER;

CHINA;

POPULUS; POPULUS EUPHRATICA; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 84942871727     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.81.10.795     Document Type: Article

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