Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-409

  Brodley, C E ^a   Friedl, Mark A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREE; DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER;

DATA STRUCTURES; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND COVER MAPPING; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; TREE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0344972104     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00049-7     Document Type: Article

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