Classification trees: An alternative to traditional land cover classifiers

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1075-1081

  Hansen, M ^a   Dubayah, R ^a   Defries, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION TREE; DATA DIMENSIONALITY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

DATA REDUCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION TREES; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0029667616     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608949069     Document Type: Article

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