Hypertemporal classification of large areas using decision fusion

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 592-596

  Udelhoven, Thomas ^a   Van Der Linden, Sebastian ^b   Waske, Björn ^c   Stellmes, Marion ^d   Hoffmann, Lucien ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision fusion (DF); Hypertemporal data; Large area mapping; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Support vector machines (SVMs)

Indexed keywords

AREA MAPPING; CLASS ASSIGNMENTS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DATA SETS; DECISION FUSION; DECISION FUSION (DF); HYPERTEMPORAL DATA; IMAGE DATA; LAND COVER; LARGE-AREA MAPPING; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SECOND-LEVEL; SIMPLE MAJORITY; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEMPERATURE VALUES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETRY; VEGETATION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 67651155764     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2021960     Document Type: Article

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