Liana canopy cover mapped throughout a tropical forest with high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 98-106

  Marvin, David C ^a,b   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^c,d  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Marquette University   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Carnegie Airborne Observatory; Hyperspectral imaging; Panama; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURVEYS;

AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; CARNEGIE AIRBORNE OBSERVATORIES; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; NEOTROPICAL FORESTS; PANAMA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST CANOPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; POPULATION SIZE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING; VINE;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84955508653     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.028     Document Type: Article

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