Comparison of digital image processing techniques for classifying arctic tundra

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-98

  Stine, Roy ^a   Chaudhuri, Debasish ^b   Ray, Peter ^c   Pathak, Prasad ^a   Hall Brown, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b Two Penn Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; DATA SET; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION;

ALASKA; TOOLIK FIELD STATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949909942     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.47.1.78     Document Type: Article

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