Land-use/cover classification in a heterogeneous coastal landscape using RapidEye imagery: evaluating the performance of random forest and support vector machines classifiers

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3440-3458

  Adam, Elhadi ^a,b   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Odindi, John ^a   Abdel Rahman, Elfatih M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE; MAPS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; COASTAL LANDSCAPES; CONFUSION MATRICES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; VEGETATION COVER;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COASTAL LANDFORM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE PLANNING; MAPPING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84901651305     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.903435     Document Type: Article

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