Impact of topographic normalization on land-cover classification accuracy

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 785-791

  Hale, Stephen R ^a   Rock, Barrett N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PIXEL; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 0038606541     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.69.7.785     Document Type: Article

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