Exploring uncertainty in remotely sensed data with parallel coordinate plots

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 413-422

  Ge, Yong ^a   Li, Sanping ^a   Lakhan, V Chris ^b   Lucieer, Arko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brushing; Interactive visualization; Parallel coordinate plots (PCP); Remotely sensed data; Shannon's entropy; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; ENTROPY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PIXEL; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VECTOR; VISUALIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 70349435907     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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