Influence of image fusion approaches on classification accuracy: A case study

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3311-3335

  Colditz, René R ^a,b   Wehrmann, Thilo ^a,b   Bachmann, Martin ^a,b   Steinnocher, Klaus ^c   Schmidt, Michael ^a,b   Strunz, Günter ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE FUSION; SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; DATA; EARTH SCIENCE; IMAGE; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; VECTOR; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746998063     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600649254     Document Type: Article

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