A data mining approach for evaluation of optimal time-series of MODIS data for land cover mapping at a regional level

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 84, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-129

  Zhou, Fuqun ^a   Zhang, Aining ^a   Townley Smith, Lawrence ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data mining; Information extraction; Land cover; MODIS data; Optimal variable combination; Time series imagery

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER IDENTIFICATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS DATA; OPTIMAL VARIABLES; TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTIONS;

RADIOMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; LAND COVER; MODIS; REGIONAL PATTERN; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84883406049     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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