The impact of relative radiometric calibration on the accuracy of kNN-predictions of forest attributes

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 431-437

  Koukal, Tatjana ^a   Suppan, Franz ^a   Schneider, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Forest inventory; k nearest neighbour method; Phenology; Scene to scene radiometric normalisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CROSS-VALIDATION; FOREST INVENTORY; K-NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR METHOD; OVERFLIGHT; SCENE-TO-SCENE RADIOMETRIC NORMALIZATION;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGERY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHENOLOGY; PREDICTION; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34548436956     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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