Integration of a Geometric Optical Reflectance Model with an Evidential Reasoning Image Classifier for Improved Forest Information Extraction

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-196

  Peddle, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

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EID: 0000311726     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1999.10874716     Document Type: Article

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