A multiple-cascade-classifier system for a robust and partially unsupervised updating of land-cover maps

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1984-1996

  Bruzzone, Lorenzo ^a   Cossu, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cascade classification; Maximum likelihood classifier; Multiple classifier systems; Multitemporal remote sensing images; Partially unsupervised classification; Radial basis function neural networks; Updating land cover maps

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

CASCADE CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIER; MULTITEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; PARTIALLY UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; UPDATING LAND-COVER MAPS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036762743     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803794     Document Type: Article

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