Temporal variation in discriminating Acacia species using optical and radar data

Abstract This study investigated the efficacy of Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical data to classify Acacia cyclops and A. mearnsii species for each month of a year using the Extreme Gradient Boosting classifier. Sentinel-2 bands and their derivative indices yielded modest overall accuracies (6...

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Main Authors: King Matsokane, Solomon G. Tesfamichael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05099-6
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