The impact of spatial resolution on the classification of plant species and functional types within imaging spectrometer data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 171, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-57

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical discriminant analysis; Hyperspectral; Plant functional types; Scaling; Species classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING;

CANONICAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; SCALING; SPECIES CLASSIFICATION;

SPECTROMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AVIRIS; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; MAPPING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETER; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84944736820     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.10.004     Document Type: Article

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