Land cover mapping with emphasis to burnt area delineation using co-orbital ALI and Landsat TM imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 344-355

  Petropoulos, George P ^a   Kontoes, Charalambos C ^b   Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Burnt area mapping; Eo 1 advanced land imager (ali); Greece; Landsat TM; Maximum likelihood; Support Vector Machines

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84864499638     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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