Monitoring and characterizing heterogeneous Mediterranean landscapes with continuous textural indices based on VHSR imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Lang, Marc ^a   Alleaume, Samuel ^a   Luque, Sandra ^a   Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Féret, Jean Baptiste ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

FOTO; habitat monitoring; High resolution airborne optical image; Landscape metrics; Landscape structure; Texture indices

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING;

FOTO; HABITAT MONITORING; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; OPTICAL IMAGE;

VEGETATION;

EID: 85048985604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10060868     Document Type: Article

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