Incorporation of digital elevation models with Landsat-TM data to improve land cover classification accuracy

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 57-64

  Fahsi, Ahmed ^a   Tsegaye, T ^a   Tadesse, W ^a   Coleman, T ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification accuracy; Digital elevation models; Landsat TM; Tau statistics

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); KAPPA COEFFICIENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; TAU STATISTICS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 0034653271     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00272-8     Document Type: Article

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