Mapping arctic tundra vegetation communities using field spectroscopy and multispectral satellite data in North Alaska, USA

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Davidson, Scott J ^a,b   Santos, Maria J ^c   Sloan, Victoria L ^b   Watts, Jennifer D ^d   Phoenix, Gareth K ^a   Oechel, Walter C ^b,e   Zona, Donatella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic; Field spectroscopy; Linear discriminant analysis; Tundra; Vegetation communities

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; IMAGE MATCHING; LANDFORMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAPPING; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; TUNDRA; VEGETATION COMMUNITY;

VEGETATION;

EID: 85002518519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8120978     Document Type: Article

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