The optimal leaf biochemical selection for mapping species diversity based on imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Zhao, Yujin ^a   Zeng, Yuan ^a   Zhao, Dan ^a   Wu, Bingfang ^a   Zhao, Qianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Biochemical components; Forest biodiversity; Imaging spectroscopy; Monte Carlo; Partial least squares; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPONENTS; FOREST BIODIVERSITY; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); SPECIES RICHNESS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84962540489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030216     Document Type: Article

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