Within- and Between-class Variability of Spectrally Similar Tree Species

In this paper, a comparison is made through evaluating the withinand between-class species variability for the original, the first derivative and second derivative spectra. For each, the experiment was conducted (i) over the entire electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), (ii) the visible (VIS) region, (iii) the near infrared (NIR) region, (iv) the short wave infrared (SWIR) region, (v) using band selection, for example, best 10, 20, 30 and 65 bands selected, through linear stepwise discriminant analysis (vi) using sequential selection of bands, for example, every 5th, 9th, 15th, 19th or 25th band selected and (vii) spectral degradation of the spectral bands by averaging the reflectance values for every 5th, 9th, 15th, 19th or 25th band. We concluded that for this data set, there are important bands from the original spectra, the first and second derivative spectra and from various regions of the EMS (VIS, NIR, SWIR) that is important for species separability. Furthermore, there did not seem t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: IGARSS
• Authors: Pravesh Debba, Moses Azong Cho, Renaud Mathieu
• Keywords: Derivative Spectra, IGARSS 2009, Remote Sensing, Species Separability, Spectral Bands