The use of backpropagating artificial neural networks in land cover classification

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4907-4938

  Kavzoglu, T ^a   Mather, P M ^b  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; DATA REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; VEGETATION;

LAND COVER;

REMOTE SENSING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0346245214     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116031000114851     Document Type: Article

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