Assessment of multi-resolution image data for mangrove leaf area index mapping

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 242-254

  Kamal, Muhammad ^a,b   Phinn, Stuart ^a   Johansen, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Leaf area index; Mangroves; Regression analysis; Segmentation; Spatial resolution; Spectral vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHOTOMAPPING; PIXELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MANGROVES; MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES;

IMAGE SAMPLING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANOPY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MANGROVE; MAPPING; MONITORING SYSTEM; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL JAVA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; JAVA; KARIMUNJAWA ISLANDS; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND; SUNDA ISLES;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84957642757     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.013     Document Type: Article

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