Reasoning about changes of land covers with fuzzy settings

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3025-3046

  Tang, X M ^a,b   Kainz, W ^c   Fang, Y ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; PATTERN MATCHING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CHANGE DETECTION; FUZZY SETTINGS; LAND COVER CHANGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAINAN; SANYA; WORLD;

EID: 23844496467     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500057863     Document Type: Article

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