Automatic unsupervised classification of snow-covered areas by decision-tree classification and minimum-error thresholding

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Macchiavello, Giorgia ^b   Moser, Gabriele ^a   Boni, Giorgio ^b   Serpico, Sebastiano B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CIMA Research Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image classification; Snow; Tree data structures; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CLASSIFICATION ,; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; CRITICAL NODE; DECISION RULES; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; ERROR THRESHOLDING; MULTI-CLASS PROBLEMS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SELECTION PROBLEMS; SNOW COVERED AREA; SUB-PROBLEMS; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; TREE DATA STRUCTURES; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION TREES; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING; VEGETATION;

SNOW;

EID: 77951132282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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