Using coarse scale forest variables as ancillary information and weighting of variables in k-NN estimation: A genetic algorithm approach

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-20

  Tomppo, Erkki ^a   Halme, Merja ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ancillary data; Genetic algorithm; k NN estimation; Multi source forest inventory

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SATELLITES;

SATELLITE IMAGES; SPECTRAL DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 3242666106     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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