Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Histograms of woody (in green) versus nonwoody (in red) segments for each of the seven predictors. X-axis for Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT) red, near-infrared (NIR), and short-wave infrared (SWIR) bands shows reflectance values, phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR) HH, and HV decibel (dB) of backscatter. Y-axis describes the number of segments. Figure Legend: From: Support vector machine classification of woody patches in New Zealand from synthetic aperture radar and optical data, with LiDAR training J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2015;9(1): doi: /1.JRS

Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Scatterplots of woody (green) and nonwoody (red) segments for SPOT red versus SWIR band (reflectance), HH versus HV backscatter (dB), and SWIR band (reflectance) versus HV backscatter (dB). Figure Legend: From: Support vector machine classification of woody patches in New Zealand from synthetic aperture radar and optical data, with LiDAR training J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2015;9(1): doi: /1.JRS

Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Plot of nonweighted (yellow/blue area) and weighted (brown line) discrimination function between woody and nonwoody classes. X- axis shows the SPOT SWIR band and Y-axis the PALSAR HV backscatter, both standardized (centered to 0 and scaled to unit variance). Figure Legend: From: Support vector machine classification of woody patches in New Zealand from synthetic aperture radar and optical data, with LiDAR training J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2015;9(1): doi: /1.JRS

Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Land Cover Database (LCDB) map of the Wellington region, showing newly identified woody patches in pasture, as red. Figure Legend: From: Support vector machine classification of woody patches in New Zealand from synthetic aperture radar and optical data, with LiDAR training J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2015;9(1): doi: /1.JRS

Date of download: 5/31/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. A subset of the Wellington region (LCDB), showing newly identified woody patches outlined in red. The woody patches are classified as outlined in Sec Figure Legend: From: Support vector machine classification of woody patches in New Zealand from synthetic aperture radar and optical data, with LiDAR training J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2015;9(1): doi: /1.JRS