Estimating forest species abundance through linear unmixing of CHRIS/PROBA imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 119, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-89

  Stagakis, Stavros ^a   Vanikiotis, Theofilos ^b   Sykioti, Olga ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

CHRIS PROBA; Forest mapping; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectroscopy; Linear unmixing

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; TESTING;

CHRIS/PROBA; FOREST MAPPING; HYPERSPECTRAL; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; LINEAR UNMIXING;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; NATIONAL PARK; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EPIRUS; GREECE; PINDUS MOUNTAINS;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 84973320554     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.05.013     Document Type: Article

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