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 I: System design and implementation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART2, 2010, Pages 1299-1325

  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 INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MONITORING; IMAGE-PROCESSING SOFTWARE; INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE INFERENCE; LANDSAT; MODEL-DRIVEN; MULTI-AGENT HYBRID SYSTEMS; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTISOURCES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; NEAR-REAL TIME; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SEGMENT-BASED; SPACE-BORNE; SPECTRAL INDICES; SRC FAMILY; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; AUTOMATION; AVHRR; CALIBRATION; DESIGN METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOEYE-1; IKONOS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; QUICKBIRD; RADIOMETER; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPOT; TRANSFORM;

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

EID: 77956062242     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032457     Document Type: Article

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