Selecting a discrimination algorithm for unexploded ordnance remediation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2547-2557

  Beran, Laurens ^a   Oldenburg, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area under the curve (AUC); Bootstrapping, discrimination; Electromagnetics, magnetics; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC); Statistical classification; Unexploded ordnance (UXO)

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CRACK INITIATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MILITARY EQUIPMENT; ORDNANCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECTILES;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE (AUC); BOOTSTRAPPING ALGORITHM; BOOTSTRAPPING, DISCRIMINATION; DECISION RULES; DISCRIMINATION ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETICS, MAGNETICS; FALSE-ALARM RATES; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; LIMITED DATA; MAGNETIC DATA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC); STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIERS; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE (UXO); USE MODELS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 50549101680     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.921394     Document Type: Article

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