Measures of classification accuracy based on fuzzy similarity

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1462-1467

  Jäger, Gunther ^a   Benz, Ursula ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; SENSORS;

ACCURACY MEASURES; ERROR MATRIX; FUZZY SIMILARITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033726249     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.843043     Document Type: Article

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