Discriminating Rangeland Management Practices Using Simulated HyspIRI, Landsat 8 OLI, Sentinel 2 MSI, and VENμS Spectral Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3957-3969

  Sibanda, Mbulisi ^a   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Rouget, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Classification; discriminant analysis (DA); field spectroscopy; rangeland management practices; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS; FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; MULTISPECTRAL INSTRUMENTS; OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; RANGELAND MANAGEMENT; RANGELAND MONITORING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; SENTINEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

POACEAE;

EID: 85027001048     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2574360     Document Type: Article

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