Remotely-sensed imagery vs. eye-level photography: Evaluating associations among measurements of tree cover density

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 157, Issue , 2017, Pages 270-281

  Jiang, Bin ^a   Deal, Brian ^b   Pan, HaoZhi ^b   Larsen, Linda ^b   Hsieh, Chung Heng ^c   Chang, Chun Yen ^d   Sullivan, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Association; Eye level photography; Remotely sensed imagery; Tree cover density; Urban forestry

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIMBER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH;

CANOPY COVER; DENSITY MEASURES; GOOGLE EARTHS; MEASUREMENTS OF; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SITE VISITS; TREE COVER; URBAN FORESTRY;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREE; URBAN FORESTRY; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84979620561     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.07.010     Document Type: Article

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