Reduction of atmospheric and topographic effect on Landsat TM data for forest classification

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5623-5642

  Huang, H ^a,b   Gong, P ^a,c   Clinton, N ^c   Hui, F ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION;

SURVEYING;

ALGORITHM; CORRECTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; TERRAIN; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SATELLITES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVEYING;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 52649098470     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802082148     Document Type: Article

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