Unsupervised subpixel mapping of remotely sensed imagery based on fuzzy c-means clustering approach

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1024-1028

  Zhang, Yihang ^a,b   Du, Yun ^a   Li, Xiaodong ^a   Fang, Shiming ^c   Ling, Feng ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means (FCM) clustering; unsupervised subpixel mapping (SPM); unsupervised unmixing

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SUB-PIXEL MAPPING; SUPERVISED UNMIXING; UNMIXING;

FUZZY SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PIXELS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84890855557     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2285404     Document Type: Article

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