Examining the effect of spatial resolution and texture window size on classification accuracy: An urban environment case

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2177-2192

  Chen, D ^a,c   Stow, D A ^a   Gong, P ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE TEXTURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LANDSCAPES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION MAPS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEXTURE EXTRACTION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN DIEGO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942586682     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001618464     Document Type: Article

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