Change detection accuracy and image properties: A study using simulated data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1508-1529

  Almutairi, Abdullah ^a   Warner, Timothy A ^b  

^a AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change classification; Change detection; Change vector analysis; Image differencing; Post classification comparison; Principal component analysis; Simulated data

Indexed keywords

CHANGE CLASSIFICATION; CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE VECTOR ANALYSIS; IMAGE DIFFERENCING; POST CLASSIFICATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SIMULATED DATA;

EXPERIMENTS; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860390291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2061508     Document Type: Article

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