Impact of discretization methods on the rough set-based classification of remotely sensed images

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 330-346

  Ge, Y ^a   Cao, F ^a   Duan, R F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Discretization; Image processing; Remote sensing; Rough set

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGH SET THEORY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION RULES; DATA PREPROCESSING; DISCRETIZATION METHOD; DISCRETIZATIONS; REMOTE SENSING CLASSIFICATION; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 79959553805     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2010.494738     Document Type: Article

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