Feature selection based on max-min-associated indices for classification of remotely sensed imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5492-5512

  Wu, Bo ^a   Wang, Xiaoqin ^a   Shen, Huanfeng ^b   Zhou, Xiaocheng ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DIMENSION REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE DATAS; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SEQUENTIAL FORWARD SELECTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84863271881     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.663111     Document Type: Article

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