Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: First mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2607-2654

  Gong, Peng ^a,b,c   Wang, Jie ^c   Yu, L ^a   Zhao, Yongchao ^d,e   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a   Liang, L ^b   Niu, Zhenguo ^c   Huang, Xiaomeng ^a   Fu, Haohuan ^a   Liu, Shuang ^c   Li, Congcong ^f   Li, Xueyan ^f   Fu, Wei ^c   Liu, Caixia ^c   Xu, Yue ^f   Wang, Xiaoyi ^c   Cheng, Q ^a   Hu, Luanyun ^a   Yao, Wenbo ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Zhu, Peng ^c   Zhao, Ziying ^f   Zhang, Haiying ^c   Zheng, Yaomin ^c   Ji, Luyan ^e   Zhang, Yawen ^g   Chen, Han ^g   Yan, A ^g   Guo, Jianhong ^h   Yu, Liang ^h   Wang, Lei ^c   Liu, Xiaojun ^g   Shi, Tingting ^g   Zhu, Menghua ^g   Chen, Yanlei ^b   Yang, Guangwen ^a   Tang, Ping ^c   Xu, Bing ^f   Giri, Chandra ⁱ   Clinton, Nicholas ^a   Zhu, Zhiliang ⁱ   Chen, Jin ^f   Chen, Jun ^j   more..

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h Beijing Xiuying Environmental Information Technology Development Inc   (China)

ⁱ U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^j National Geomatics Centre   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE TESTING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TESTING;

DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84872359932     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.748992     Document Type: Article

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