Mapping tropical dry forest habitats integrating Landsat NDVI, Ikonos imagery, and topographic information in the Caribbean Island of Mona

Mapping tropical dry forest habitats integrating Landsat NDVI, Ikonos imagery, and topographic information in the Caribbean Island of Mona

Assessing the status of tropical dry forest habitats using remote sensing technologies is one of the research priorities for Neotropical forests. We developed a simple method for mapping vegetation and habitats in a tropical dry forest reserve, Mona Island, Puerto Rico, by integrating the Normalized...

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Main Authors: Sebastián Martinuzzi, William A Gould, Olga M Ramos Gonzalez, Alma Martinez Robles, Paulina Calle Maldonado, Néstor Pérez-Buitrago, José J Fumero Caban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vicerractoría Investigación 2008-06-01
Series:Revista de Biología Tropical
Subjects:
bosques secos tropicales
Landsat
NDVI
Ikonos
mapa de vegetación
topografía
Puerto Rico
Caribe
tropical dry forests
vegetation mapping
topography
Caribbean
Online Access:http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442008000200018

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