Land-cover mapping in the Nujiang Grand Canyon: Integrating spectral, textural, and topographic data in a random forest classifier

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 7545-7567

  Fan, Hui ^a,b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yunnan Key Laboratory for International Rivers and Transboundary Ecology Security   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DECISION TREES; INFORMATION USE; PHOTOMAPPING;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; GREY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; TEXTURE BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

GEOSTATISTICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; NUJIANG GRAND CANYON; YUNNAN;

EID: 84884489479     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.820366     Document Type: Article

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