Land-use and land-cover mapping using a gradable classification method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1544-1558

  Kitada, Keigo ^a   Fukuyama, Kaoru ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerial photograph; Gradable classification; Lacunarity; Land use and land cover classification; Maximum likelihood classification

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; DIGITAL CLASSIFICATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HYBRID ANALYSIS; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; LACUNARITY; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD APPROACH; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATION; ORIGINAL IMAGES; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPATIAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL DATA; TEXTURE INFORMATION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN FEATURES;

LAND USE; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURES;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

EID: 84865023839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4061544     Document Type: Article

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