Estimating soil erosion using MODIS and TM images based on support vector machine and à trous wavelet

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 626-635

  Chen, S H ^a   Su, H B ^a   Tian, J ^a   Zhang, R H ^a   Xia, J ^a  

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

Author keywords

trous wavelet transform; MODIS; Soil erosion; Support vector machine; TM

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; MODIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053288445     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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