A high-resolution map of Singapore’s terrestrial ecosystems

Data

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Gaw, Leon Yan Feng ^a,b   Yee, Alex Thiam Koon ^c   Richards, Daniel Rex ^a,b  

^a FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b CAMPUS FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE CREATE   (Singapore)

^c National Parks Board   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ecology; GIS; Land cover; Random forest; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICS;

HIGH RESOLUTION MAPS; LAND COVER; NATURAL AREAS; RANDOM FORESTS; REMOTE-SENSING; SINGAPORE; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85073348014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23065729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/data4030116     Document Type: Article

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