Estimation of forest structural diversity using the spectral and textural information derived from SPOT-5 satellite images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Meng, Jinghui ^a   Li, Shiming ^b   Wang, Wei ^c   Liu, Qingwang ^b   Xie, Shiqin ^a   Ma, Wu ^d  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c Survey and Planning Institute of State Forestry Administration   (China)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

All subsets multiple linear regression; Forest structural diversity; Pearson's correlation analysis; Spectral and textural measures; Uneven aged forest management

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SATELLITES;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SPECTRAL AND TEXTURAL MEASURES; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; UNEVEN-AGED FOREST MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84962505100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020125     Document Type: Article

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