Land cover and impervious surface extraction using parametric and non-parametric algorithms from the open-source software R: An application to sustainable urban planning in Sicily

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-250

  La Rosa, Daniele ^a   Wiesmann, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

land cover; pixel based classification; R, urban planning; supervised classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; ORTHOPHOTO; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXEL; SOFTWARE; URBAN PLANNING;

CATANIA [CATANIA (PRV)]; CATANIA [SICILY]; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84879683471     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2013.795307     Document Type: Article

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