Decision fusion for the classification of urban remote sensing images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2828-2838

  Fauvel, Mathieu ^a,b   Chanussot, Jocelyn ^a   Benediktsson, Jón Atli ^b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Classification; Data fusion; Decision fusion; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy set theory; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DECISION FUSION; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; FUSION OF MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; FUZZY DECISION RULES; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; URBAN REMOTE SENSING IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA FUSION; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 34249822423     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.876708     Document Type: Article

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