Classifying airborne radiometry data with Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering: A tool for geological mapping in context of rainforest (French Guiana)

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 208-223

  Martelet, G ^a   Truffert, C ^a   Tourliere B ^a   Ledru, P ^a   Perrin, J ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering; Airborne geophysics; Cayenne; Classification; French Guiana; Geochemistry; Geological mapping; Radiometry; Regolith

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA PROCESSING; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOPHYSICS; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RAINFOREST; REGOLITH; REMOTE SENSING;

CAYENNE; FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746360233     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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