Enhancing post-classification change detection through morphological post-processing - a sensitivity analysis

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7145-7162

  Seebach, Lucia ^a   Strobl, Peter ^b   Vogt, Peter ^b   Mehl, Wolfgang ^b   San Miguel Ayanz, Jesús ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; MAIN ERROR SOURCES; POST CLASSIFICATION; SIMULATED DATASETS; SPATIAL PROCESSING; THEMATIC ACCURACIES;

ERROR DETECTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881639254     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.815382     Document Type: Article

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