Can airborne and SBG-like imaging spectroscopic data capture plant diversity in naturally-assembled heterogeneous grassland ecosystems?
Hamed Gholizadeh1, Adam Dixon2, Kimberly Pan3, Nicholas A. McMillan4, Robert G. Hamilton5, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf4, Jeannine Cavender-Bares6 and John Arthur Gamon7, (1)Oklahoma State University, Geography, Stillwater, United States, (2)World Wildlife Fund, Bozeman, MT, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States, (4)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States, (5)The Nature Conservancy, Pawhuska, United States, (6)University of Minnesota, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (7)University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Nature Resources, Lincoln, United States