A method for selecting training data and its effect on automated land cover mapping of large areas

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Colditz, René R ^a   Schmidt, Michael ^b   Ressl, Rainer ^a   Hansenc, Matthew C ^c   Dechb, Stefan ^d  

^a National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity CONABIO   (Mexico)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy Assessment; Decision Tree Classifier; Image Classification; MODIS; Training Data Selection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER; FIELD STUDIES; FUZZY IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; GERMANY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER MAPPING; MODIS; RESOLUTION IMAGES; SAMPLE DATA; SMALL SCALE; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING DATA SELECTION; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION DATA;

CLASSIFIERS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION TREES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 67649797424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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