Automatic spectral rule-based preliminary classification of radiometrically calibrated SPOT-4/-5/IRS, AVHRR/MSG, AATSR, IKONOS/QuickBird/OrbView/GeoEye, and DMC/SPOT-1/-2 imagery-Part II: Classification accuracy assessment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART2, 2010, Pages 1326-1354

  Baraldi, Andrea ^a,b   Durieux, Laurent ^a,c   Simonetti, Dario ^a   Conchedda, Giulia ^d   Holecz, Francesco ^e   Blonda, Palma ^f  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Baraldi Consultancy in Remote Sensing   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^e SARMAP SA   (Switzerland)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision tree classifier; Image classification; Inductive and deductive inference; Prior knowledge; Radiometric calibration; Remote sensing (RS)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; AVNIR-2; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY ASSESSMENTS; DISASTER MONITORING CONSTELLATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; FINITE SET; FORMOSA; GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; GLOBAL MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY; IMAGING SENSORS; INDIAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE; INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE INFERENCE; INPUT DATAS; INTERNET MAP SERVERS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT 7; LANDSAT-4; LINEAR IMAGING; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MULTI SENSOR IMAGES; MULTIPURPOSE SATELLITES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING SENSORS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; QUICKBIRD-2; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; RESOLUTION IMAGING; RULE BASED; SATELLITE MAPPING; SATELLITE POUR L'OBSERVATION DE LA TERRE; SPACE-BORNE; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; THEMATIC MAPPERS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED RADIOMETERS; WIDE FIELD;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISASTER PREVENTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTEGRATION; PHOTOMAPPING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; ASTER; AVHRR; AVNIR; DATA SET; DATABASE; ENVISAT-1; FORMOSAT-2; GEOEYE-1; IKONOS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IRS (SATELLITE); LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LISS; METEOSAT; MODIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; QUICKBIRD; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPOT;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 77956055657     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032064     Document Type: Article

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