Feature selection by genetic algorithms in object-based classification of IKONOS imagery for forest mapping in Flanders, Belgium

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 476-487

  Van Coillie, Frieke M B ^a   Verbeke, Lieven P C ^a   De Wulf, Robert R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature selection; Forest mapping; Genetic algorithms; IKONOS; Neural networks; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FOREST COVER; OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; FOREST COVER; IKONOS; MAP; SEGMENTATION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLANDERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548435161     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.03.020     Document Type: Article

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