Land-cover mapping in the Brazilian Amazon using SPOT-4 vegetation data and machine learning classification methods

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 897-910

  Carreiras, João M B ^a   Pereira, José M C ^a   Shimabukuro, Yosio E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PROBABILITY; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION TREE; FRACTION IMAGES; LAND-COVER MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

CERRADO; DIGITAL MAPPING; LAND COVER; SAVANNA; SPOT;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746609273     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.8.897     Document Type: Review

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