Spatial statistical techniques for aggregating point objects extracted from high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 423-433

  Nelson, Trisalyn ^a   Niemann, K Olaf ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Feature extraction; Generalisation; Nearest neighbour statistics

Indexed keywords

FOREST; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037507331     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101090300092     Document Type: Article

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