Decision fusion based on hyperspectral and multispectral satellite imagery for accurate forest species mapping

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 6897-6928

  Stavrakoudis, Dimitris G ^a   Dragozi, Eleni ^a   Gitas, Ioannis Z ^a   Karydas, Christos G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Forest species mapping; Fuzzy output SVM; High spatial resolution; Post regularization; Satellite hyperspectral imagery

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DECISION FUSION; FOREST SPECIES; FUZZY OUTPUT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; POST-REGULARIZATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84905276964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6086897     Document Type: Article

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