Classification of remotely sensed imagery using stochastic gradient boosting as a refinement of classification tree analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 331-336

  Lawrence, Rick ^a   Bunn, Andrew ^a   Powell, Scott ^a   Zambon, Michael ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Classification tree analysis; Stochastic gradient boosting

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS;

CLASSIFICATION TREE ANALYSIS (CTA); OPTIMAL TREE STRUCTURES;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 1842431416     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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