Evaluation of Atmospheric Correction Methods in Identifying Urban Tree Species with WorldView-2 Imagery

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

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1886-1897

  Pu, Ruiliang ^a   Landry, Shawn ^a   Zhang, Jingcheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction (AC); classification and regression trees (CART); empirical line calibration (ELC); fast line of sight atmospheric analysis of spectral hypercubes (FLAASH); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); tree species identification; WorldView 2 (WV2)

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; EMPIRICAL LINE; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; TREE SPECIES IDENTIFICATIONS; WORLDVIEW-2;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CANOPY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREE; URBAN AREA; WORLDVIEW;

CLASSIFICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; TAMPA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027921755     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2363441     Document Type: Article

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