Accuracy of land cover area estimated from coarse spatial resolution images using an unmixing method

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1673-1683

  Oki, K ^a   Uenishi, T M ^a   Omasa, K ^a   Tamura, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOMETERS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THEMATIC MAPPER (TM);

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 1942504279     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116031000139854     Document Type: Article

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