The effects of ecologically determined spatial complexity on the classification accuracy of simulated coral reef images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 965-978

  Lim, Alan ^a   Hedley, John D ^b   LeDrew, Ellsworth ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^b   Roelfsema, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b The Hatherly Laboratories   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Classification; Colony clustering; Coral cover; Coral reefs; Hyperspectral; Size frequency distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION; COLONY CLUSTERING; CORAL COVER; CORAL REEFS; HYPERSPECTRAL; SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BLOCK CODES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PIXELS; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

REEFS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 63649126110     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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