Classification of multispectral ASTER imagery in archaeological settlement survey in the near east

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 36, Issue 7/C50, 2007, Pages

  Menze, Bjoern H ^a   Ur, Jason A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeological remote sensing; Fusion; Settlement mounds; Soil mark; Spatio temporal sampling; Survey techniques

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK MECHANICS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGIES; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SETTLEMENT MOUNDS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SAMPLINGS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; SURVEY TECHNIQUES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 81755171503     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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