Enhanced forest cover mapping using spectral unmixing and object-based classification of multi-temporal Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 196, Issue , 2017, Pages 193-204

  Gudex Cross, David ^a   Pontius, Jennifer ^a   Adams, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal area mapping; Biophysical modeling; Hierarchical classification; Object based image analysis; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NATURAL RESOURCES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PHOTOMAPPING; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING;

BASAL AREA; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; RULE-BASED CLASSIFICATION;

MAPPING;

BASAL AREA; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

ACER SACCHARUM; POPULUS SP.;

EID: 85019495292     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.05.006     Document Type: Article

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