Alternative criteria for defining fuzzy boundaries based on fuzzy classification of aerial photographs and satellite images

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1379-1387

  Zhang, Jingxiong ^a   Kirby, Roger P ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0032733390     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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