Discrimination of species composition types of a grazed pasture landscape using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 84, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Crabbe, Richard A ^a   Lamb, David ^a   Edwards, Clare ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Local Land Services Regional Operations   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botanical composition; Pasture species classification; Random forest; Satellite remote sensing; Support vector machine; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENTINEL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 85085559239     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2019.101978     Document Type: Article

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