Object-based classification of Worldview-2 imagery for mapping invasive common reed, Phragmites Australis

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 328-340

  Lantz, Nicholas J ^a   Wang, Jinfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; OBJECT-BASED METHODS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

PHOTOMAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROSCOPY;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84888374274     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-041     Document Type: Article

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