Evaluating the performance of Sentinel-2, Landsat 8 and Pléiades-1 in mapping mangrove extent and species

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2018, Pages

  Wang, Dezhi ^a   Wan, Bo ^a   Qiu, Penghua ^b   Su, Yanjun ^c   Guo, Qinghua ^c,d   Wang, Run ^a   Sun, Fei ^a   Wu, Xincai ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Landsat 8; Mangroves; Pl iades 1; Random forest; Sentinel 2; Species

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSAT; MANGROVES; RANDOM FORESTS; SENTINEL-2; SPECIES;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 85053609744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10091468     Document Type: Article

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