Decision tree regression for soft classification of remote sensing data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 322-336

  Xu, Min ^a   Watanachaturaporn, Pakorn ^a   Varshney, Pramod K ^a   Arora, Manoj K ^b  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Classification accuracy; Decision tree regression; Non parametric classification; Soft classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DECISION TREE REGRESSION; NON-PARAMETRIC CLASSIFICATION; SOFT CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 23744434616     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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