Balancing misclassification errors of land cover classification maps using support vector machines and Landsat imagery in the Maipo river basin (Central Chile, 1975-2010)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-123

  Puertas, Olga Lucia ^a   Brenning, Alexander ^b   Meza, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias removal; Classifier adjustment; Land cover maps; Mapping methods; Unbiased area estimates

Indexed keywords

BIAS REMOVAL; CLASSIFIER ADJUSTMENTS; LAND COVER MAPS; MAPPING METHOD; UNBIASED AREA ESTIMATES;

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; WATERSHEDS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FLOODPLAIN; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VECTOR;

CHILE; MAIPO BASIN;

EID: 84880406227     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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