Efficiency of Landsat ETM+ thermal band for land cover classification of the biosphere reserve "eastern carpathians" (Central Europe) using SMAP and ML Algorithms

International Journal of Environmental Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 741-750

  Ehsani, A H ^a   Quiel, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Landsat ETM+; Maximum likelihood; SMAP; Thermal band

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOSPHERE; DATA SET; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CARPATHIANS;

EID: 79955576029     PISSN: 17356865     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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