Potential of digital sensors for land cover and tree species classifications - A case study in the framework of the DGPF-project

Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-156

  Waser, Lars T ^a   Klonus, Sascha ^b   Ehlers, Manfred ^b   Küchler, Meinrad ^a   Jung, András ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital airborne systems; Land cover classification; Logistic regression; Maximum likelihood; Tree species

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958101917     PISSN: 14328364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1432-8364/2010/0046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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