Integrating contextual information with per-pixel classification for improved land cover classification

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 282-296

  Stuckens, J ^a   Coppin, P R ^a   Bauer, M E ^b  

^a Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SOILS; SORTING; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION MAPS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND COVER;

EID: 0034161563     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00083-8     Document Type: Article

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