Incorporating domain knowledge and spatial relationships into land cover classifications: A rule-based approach

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2949-2975

  Daniels, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKEHOOD ALGORITHM; RULE-BASED ALGORITHM;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; LAND COVER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 33747093349     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600567753     Document Type: Article

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