Algorithms and applications for land cover classification - A review

Geospatial Technology for Earth Observation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 203-233

  Waske, Björn ^a   Chi, Mingmin ^b   Atli Benediktsson, Jón ^a   Van Der Linden, Sebastian ^c   Koetz, Benjamin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84892192754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0050-0_8     Document Type: Chapter

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