Use of vegetation change tracker and support vector machine to map disturbance types in greater yellowstone ecosystems in a 1984-2010 landsat time series

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1650-1654

  Zhao, Feng ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Zhu, Zhiliang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance type mapping; Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE); Landsat time series; support vector machine (SVM); vegetation change tracker (VCT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TYPE MAPPINGS; VEGETATION CHANGE; YELLOWSTONES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 85027949249     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2418159     Document Type: Article

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