An evaluation of fuzzy approaches to mapping land cover from aerial photographs

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 193-201

  Zhang, Jingxiong ^a,b   Kirby, Roger P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Assessment; Fuzzy clasaification; Land cover; Photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FUZZY SETS; INTERPOLATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; TRIANGULATION;

LAND COVER;

PHOTOMAPPING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FUZZY MAP; LAND COVER; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

UK, SCOTLAND, LOTHIAN, EDINBURGH;

EID: 0031259663     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-2716(97)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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