Comparison of single-stage and multi-stage classification approaches for cover type mapping with TM and SPOT data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 92-104

  Miguel Ayanz, Jesús San ^a   Biging, Gregory S ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ITERATIVE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT TM; METHOD COMPARISON; SPOT;

SPAIN, SIERRA;

DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAPPING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PROBABILITY; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

ITERATIVE DATA CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES; LAND COVER TYPE MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030617352     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00109-5     Document Type: Article

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