Improving land cover maps in areas of disagreement of existing products using NDVI time series of MODIS - Example for Europe

Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation

Volumn 2014, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 393-407

  Vuolo, Francesco ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^a  

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

Author keywords

Accuracy confidence; Classification; Land cover; NDVI; Random forest; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910150542     PISSN: 14328364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1432-8364/2014/0232     Document Type: Article

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