Landsat TM-Based Forest Area Estimation Using Iterative Guided Spectral Class Rejection

In cooperation with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, an algorithm has been developed to replace the current aerial-photography-derived FIA Phase 1 estimates of forest/non-forest with a Landsat Thematic Mapper-based forest area estimation. Corrected area estimates were obtained usin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wayman, Jared Paul
Other Authors: Forestry
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
FIA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33252
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05262000-13410035/