Empirical method for topographic correction in aerial photographs

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-214

  Svoray, T ^a   Carmel, Y ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classification error; Geostatistics; Topographic effect; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; GEOSTATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 18844438671     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.846012     Document Type: Article

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