ARCTIS - A MATLAB® toolbox for archaeological imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8617-8638

  Atzberger, Clement ^a   Wess, Michael ^a   Doneus, Michael ^b,c   Verhoeven, Geert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aerial archaeology; Data mining; Data redundancy; Dimensionality reduction; Graphical user interface; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Imaging spectroscopy; Red edge inflection point; Smoothing; Soil mark; Vegetation mark; Visibility mark; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

DATA REDUNDANCY; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; INFLECTION POINTS; SMOOTHING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84907458704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098617     Document Type: Article

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