Mapping tree species in tropical seasonal semi-deciduous forests with hyperspectral and multispectral data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 179, Issue , 2016, Pages 66-78

  Ferreira, Matheus Pinheiro ^a   Zortea, Maciel ^b   Zanotta, Daniel Capella ^c   Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ^a   de Souza Filho, Carlos Roberto ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c National Institute for Education Science and Technology   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Atlantic Forest; Classification; Imaging spectroscopy; Individual tree crowns; WorldView 3

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PHOTOMAPPING; PIXELS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SUPERVISED LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TROPICS;

BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC FORESTS; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NARROW BAND VEGETATION INDICES; OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; WORLDVIEW-3;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84961880766     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.021     Document Type: Article

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