Tree species abundance predictions in a tropical agricultural landscape with a supervised classification model and imbalanced data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Graves, Sarah J ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Martin, Roberta E ^b   Anderson, Christopher B ^b   Colgan, Matthew S ^b   Kalantari, Leila ^c   Bohlman, Stephanie A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Class imbalance; Imaging spectroscopy; Operational species mapping; Support vector machine; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSERVATION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MAPPING; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TROPICS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES MAPPING; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84962601050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020161     Document Type: Article

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