Discrimination of tropical forest types, dominant species, and mapping of functional guilds by hyperspectral and simulated multispectral Sentinel-2 data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 163-176

  Vaglio Laurin, Gaia ^a,b   Puletti, Nicola ^c   Hawthorne, William ^d   Liesenberg, Veraldo ^e   Corona, Piermaria ^c   Papale, Dario ^b   Chen, Qi ^f   Valentini, Riccardo ^a,b  

^a Forests and Ecosystem Services   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant species; Forest; Forest type; Functional composition; Guilds; Hyperspectral; Sentinel 2; Tropical

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

DOMINANT SPECIES; FOREST; FOREST TYPE; FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITIONS; GUILDS; HYPERSPECTRAL; SENTINEL-2; TROPICAL;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GUILD STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SENTINEL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 84960458844     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.017     Document Type: Article

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