A review of the effectiveness of spatial information used in urban land cover classification of VHR imagery

International Journal of Geoinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 35-51

  Saleu, B ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Zhong, M ^a   Dey, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAND COVER; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PIXEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84863431792     PISSN: 16866576     EISSN: 26730014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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