Incorporating remote sensing information in modeling house values: A regression tree approach

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-138

  Yu, Danlin ^a,b   Wu, Changshan ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MEAN AVERAGE ERROR (MAE); OLS REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE ERROR (RE);

REMOTE SENSING;

HOUSING MARKET; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33144480471     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.2.129     Document Type: Article

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