Multi-temporal land-cover classification and change analysis with conditional probability networks: The case of Lesvos Island (Greece)

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4075-4093

  Symeonakis, Elias ^a,b   Caccetta, Peter ^b   Koukoulas, Sotirios ^a   Furby, Suzanne ^b   Karathanasis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LAND USE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DISCRETE VARIABLES; FIRST-ORDER HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER TYPES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; RIGOROUS VALIDATION;

LANDFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84855438696     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.640961     Document Type: Article

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