Estimating biomass of native grass grown under complex management treatments using worldview-3 spectral derivatives

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Sibanda, Mbulisi ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Rouget, Mathieu ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Estimation accuracy; Grass biomass; SPLSR; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; GRASS BIOMASS; OPTIMAL PREDICTIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPARSE PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPLSR; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

EID: 85010660456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9010055     Document Type: Article

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