Assessment of multi-temporal, multi-sensor radar and ancillary spatial data for grasslands monitoring in Ireland using machine learning approaches

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-124

  Barrett, Brian ^a   Nitze, Ingmar ^a,c   Green, Stuart ^b   Cawkwell, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Extremely randomised trees; Grasslands; Radar; Random forests; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; RADAR; SENSORS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; EXTREMELY RANDOMISED TREES; GRASSLANDS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; RANDOM FORESTS; IRELAND; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SPATIAL DATA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; GRASSLAND; RADAR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CLOUD COVER; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RADAR; SENSORS;

IRELAND;

EID: 84902972855     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.05.018     Document Type: Article

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