Maximizing land cover classification accuracies produced by decision trees at continental to global scales

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages 969-977

  Friedl, Mark A ^a   Brodley, Carla E ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision trees; Land cover

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; RADIOMETERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033100735     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752215     Document Type: Article

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