Delineation of climate regions using in-situ and remotely-sensed data for the Carolinas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3099-3111

  Rhee, Jinyoung ^a   Im, Jungho ^b   Carbone, Gregory J ^a   Jensen, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate regions; Clustering; Decision trees; MODIS; Remote sensing; TRMM

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

CLIMATE REGIONS; MACHINE-LEARNING DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION; MODIS; TRMM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAROLINA; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 43949096156     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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