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Classifying Rangeland Vegetation Type and Coverage Using a Fourier Component Based Similarity Measure
Author
Evans, J.P.
Geerken, R.
Publisher
Remote Sensing of Environment
Publication Year
2006
Body

This paper defines a land cover classification technique based on the annual NDVI cycle. A similarity measure based directly on thecomponents of the Discrete Fourier Transform is used to determine a pixels class membership. This Fourier component similarity measureproduces an objective, computationally inexpensive and rapid method of classification that is able to classify rangeland vegetation by dominantshrub type, and which performs favorably compared to previously published classification techniques. By also defining a Fourier component based coverage measure this technique provides an estimate of vegetation coverage.

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Journal Issue/Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
:10.1016/j.rse.2006.05.01
Journal Volume
105
Journal Pages
8-Jan
Collection
Journal Name
Remote Sensing of Environment
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