Sensitivity analysis for predicting continuous fields of tree-cover and fractional land-cover distributions in cloud-prone areas

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2799-2821

  Leinenkugel, Patrick ^a   Wolters, Michel L ^a   Kuenzer, Claudia ^a   Oppelt, Natascha ^b   Dech, Stefan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DROUGHT; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; REGRESSION TREE ALGORITHMS; ROBUSTNESS OF MODEL; WET AND DRY SEASONS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; LAND COVER; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION; DROUGHT; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84897487106     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.890302     Document Type: Article

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