Assessment of current field plots and lidar 'virtual' plots as guides to classification procedures for multitemporal analysis of historic and current landsat data for determining forest age classes

Abstract

Euclidean distance measures and Landsat ETM+ band combinations and transformations are tested for their usefulness in classification of volume. Field plots are used for training and validation. Early results indicate that a Euclidean distance of 18 optimizes classification accuracies for volume. Tests for optimal band combinations were inconclusive.