Categorical fuzziness: A comparison between crisp and fuzzy class boundary modelling for mapping salt-affected soils using Landsat TM data and a classification based on anion ratios

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 371-389

  Metternicht, G I ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Fuzzy classification; Fuzzy modelling; Fuzzy sets; Remote sensing; Salinity mapping

Indexed keywords

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY; SOIL DEGRADATION;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0347604752     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00147-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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