Pan-European forest/non-forest mapping with Landsat ETM+ and CORINE Land Cover 2000 data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-183

  Pekkarinen, Anssi ^a   Reithmaier, Lucia ^a   Strobl, Peter ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification; Forestry; Landsat; Remote sensing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

AUTOMATED PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION; CORINE LAND COVERS; DATA SETS; FOREST AREAS; FOREST MAPPINGS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT ETM+; NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; REPRESENTATIVITY; SCENE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATIONS; TRAINING DATUM; VALIDATION DATUM;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DATA SET; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STATISTICS;

EID: 61349157317     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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