Effect of prior probabilities on maximum likelihood classifier

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 3753-3756

  Zheng, Mingguo ^a   Cai, Qiangguo ^a   Wang, Zhenjian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b LIAOCHENG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian rule; Maximum likelihood classifier; Prior Probabilities; Remote sensing classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING;

BAYESIAN RULE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIER; PRIOR PROBABILITIES; REMOTE SENSING CLASSIFICATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 33745726369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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