Automated Water Extraction Index: A new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-35

  Feyisa, Gudina L ^a   Meilby, Henrik ^a   Fensholt, Rasmus ^a   Proud, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classification accuracy; Mixed pixel; Subpixel; Threshold stability

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MIXED PIXEL; MODIFIED NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX (MNDWI); OMISSION AND COMMISSION ERRORS; SUB PIXELS; THRESHOLD STABILITY;

ERRORS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; SURFACE WATERS;

EXTRACTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INDEX METHOD; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; NOISE; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THRESHOLD; WATER RESOURCE;

AFRICA; EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84884256674     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.029     Document Type: Article

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