A comparison of support vector machines and manual change detection for land-cover map updating in Massachusetts, USA

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 882-890

  Schwert, B ^a   Rogan, J ^a   Giner, N M ^a   Ogneva Himmelberger, Y ^a   Blanchard, S D ^b   Woodcock, C ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; MANUAL METHODS; MAP UPDATING; MASSACHUSETTS , USA; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SPECTRAL IMAGES; SPECTRAL THRESHOLD;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AUTOMATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880427682     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2013.809497     Document Type: Article

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