Assessing the quality of training data in the supervised classification of remotely sensed imagery: a correlation analysis

Journal of Spatial Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-152

  Ge, Yong ^a   Bai, Hexiang ^b   Wang, Jinfeng ^a   Cao, Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

correlation analysis; measures; quality assessment of training data; rough set

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84870902478     PISSN: 14498596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14498596.2012.733616     Document Type: Article

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