Evaluation of three supervised classifiers in mapping “Depth to late-summer frozen ground,” central yukon territory

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-174

  Leverington, David W ^a   Duguay, Claude R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PERMAFROST; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CRYOSPHERIC SYSTEM RESEARCH PROGRAM; DEPTH TO LATE SUMMER FROZEN GROUND CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION; CRYOSPHERE; DEM; NEURAL NETOWRK; PERMAFROST; RESEARCH PROGRAMME; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TM DATA;

CANADA, YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 0030157232     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1996.10874650     Document Type: Article

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