Comparison of four classification methods to extract land use and land cover from raw satellite images for some remote arid areas, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Earth Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-191

  Al Ahmadi, F S ^a   Hames, A S ^b  

^a Ministry of Water and Electricity   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arid regions; Land cover; Land use; Remote sensing; Satellite images

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049372028     PISSN: 10128832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4197/Ear.20-1.9     Document Type: Article

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