Mapping Arctic plant functional type distributions in the Barrow environmental observatory using World View-2 and LiDAR datasets

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Langford, Zachary ^a,b   Kumar, Jitendra ^a,b   Hoffman, Forrest M ^c   Norby, Richard J ^a,b   Wullschleger, Stan D ^a,b   Sloan, Victoria L ^d   Iversen, Colleen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Clustering; Interpolation; Plant functional type; World View 2

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; FORESTRY; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; OBSERVATORIES; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; CLUSTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORIES; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING; WORLD VIEWS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 85002943394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090733     Document Type: Article

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