Improving landsat and irs image classification: Evaluation of unsupervised and supervised classification through band ratios and dem in a mountainous landscape in Nepal

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1257-1272

  Krishna Bahadur, K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancillary data; Band ratios; IRS; Land use land cover classification; Landsat; Mountain shadow; Nepal

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY DATA; BAND RATIOS; IRS; LANDSAT; MOUNTAIN SHADOW; NEPAL;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SURVEYING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 78650537406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1041257     Document Type: Article

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