Semantic annotation in earth observation based on active learning

International Journal of Image and Data Fusion

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 152-174

  Cui, Shiyong ^a   Dumitru, Corneliu Octavian ^a   Datcu, Mihai ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

active learning; earth observation; image indexing; image information mining; multi temporal image analysis; semantic annotation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899984880     PISSN: 19479832     EISSN: 19479824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2013.858778     Document Type: Article

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