The effect of atmospheric and topographic correction methods on land cover classification accuracy

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-21

  Vanonckelen, Steven ^a   Lhermitte, Stefaan ^b   Van Rompaey, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Bi temporal; Classification accuracy assessment; Land cover mapping; Landsat; Mountain areas; Topographic correction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 84880113869     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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