Mapping forest health using spectral and textural information extracted from SPOT-5 satellite images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Meng, Jinghui ^a   Li, Shiming ^b   Wang, Wei ^c   Liu, Qingwang ^b   Xie, Shiqin ^a   Ma, Wu ^d  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c Survey and Planning Institute of State Forestry Administration   (China)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

All subsets regression; Forest health; Forest health management; Pearson's correlation analysis; Spectral and textural measures

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; MAPS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHOTOMAPPING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALL-SUBSETS REGRESSION; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST HEALTH INDICATORS; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; SPECTRAL AND TEXTURAL MEASURES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85019721002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090719     Document Type: Article

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