Island, VA, Using HyMAP Imagery

Abstract—Automatic land cover classification maps were developed from Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner (HyMAP) imagery acquired May 8, 2000 over Smith Island, VA, a barrier island in the Virginia Coast Reserve. Both unsupervised and supervised classification approaches were used to create these produc...

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Main Authors: Charles M. Bachmann, Timothy F. Donato, Gia M. Lamela, W. Joseph Rhea, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Robert A. Fusina, Kevin R. Du Bois, John H. Porter, Barry R. Truitt
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.128.4633
http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7230/pdf/bachmann2002.pdf
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Summary:Abstract—Automatic land cover classification maps were developed from Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner (HyMAP) imagery acquired May 8, 2000 over Smith Island, VA, a barrier island in the Virginia Coast Reserve. Both unsupervised and supervised classification approaches were used to create these products to evaluate relative merits and to develop models that would be useful to natural resource managers at higher spatial resolution than has been available previously. Ground surveys made by us in late October