Classification of tropical forest classes from landsat tm data.

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2353-2367

  Foody, G M ^a   Hill, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; FORESTRY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THERMAL MAPPER DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION CLASS; FOREST CLASS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT TM; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TROPICAL FOREST; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0030208643     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608948777     Document Type: Article

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