An SMP soft classification algorithm for remote sensing

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-80

  Phillips, Rhonda D ^a   Watson, Layne T ^a   Easterling, David R ^a   Wynne, Randolph H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; IGSCR; Remote sensing; Semisupervised clustering

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ITERATIVE METHODS; REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; IGSCR; PARALLEL SCALABILITY; SEMI-SUPERVISED CLUSTERING; SUPERLINEAR SPEEDUPS; SYMMETRIC MULTI PROCESSING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER; IMAGE; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84899886734     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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