A relative evaluation of multiclass image classification by support vector machines

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1335-1343

  Foody, Giles M ^a   Mathur, Ajay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy comparison; Remote sensing; Supervised classification; Support vector machine (SVM); Training set

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACCURACY COMPARISON; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM); TRAINING SET;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 3042654673     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.827257     Document Type: Article

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