The effect of prior probabilities in the maximum likelihood classification on individual classes: A theoretical reasoning and empirical testing

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1109-1117

  Zheng, Mingguo ^a   Cai, Qianguo ^a   Qin, Mingzhou ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

CLASS MEAN; DECISION BOUNDARY; EMPIRICAL TESTING; LANDSAT TM DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; PRIOR PROBABILITY; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 79955524593     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.75.9.1109     Document Type: Article

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