Quantitative assessment of a haze suppression methodology for satellite imagery: Effect on land cover classification performance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 5 PART 1, 2003, Pages 1082-1090

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Guindon, Bert ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image processing; Information retrieval; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAND USE; OPTIMIZATION;

HAZE SUPPRESSION; TERRAIN MAPPING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 4143077003     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.811817     Document Type: Article

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