Use of principal components of UAV-acquired narrow-band multispectral imagery to map the diverse low stature vegetation fAPAR

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 605-623

  Huang, Cho ying ^a   Wei, Hsin Lin ^a,b   Rau, Jiann Yeou ^b   Jhan, Jyun Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemometrics; leaf area index; MiniMCA; precision agriculture; productivity

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PRECISION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

POACEAE;

EID: 85057604739     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2018.1550873     Document Type: Article

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