High-resolution landform classification using fuzzy k -means

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-52

  Burrough, P A ^a   Van Gaans, P F M ^a   MacMillan, R A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LandMapper Environmental Solutions   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Fuzzy k means; Fuzzy sets; Geographical information systems; Landform classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION LANDFORM CLASSIFICATIONS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0033731263     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0114(99)00011-1     Document Type: Article

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