Mapping of land degradation from ASTER data: A comparison of object-based and pixel-based methods

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-166

  Gao, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; MAPPING METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JILIN; TONGYU;

EID: 44649142555     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.45.2.149     Document Type: Article

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