Estimating the parameters of forest inventory using machine learning and the reduction of remote sensing features

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 290-297

  Tamm, Tanel ^a   Remm, Kalle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Local statistics; Machine learning; Remote sensing of forests

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 65749086872     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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