Burned area mapping using support vector machines and the FuzCoC feature selection method on VHR IKONOS imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12005-12036

  Dragozi, Eleni ^a   Gitas, Ioannis Z ^a   Stavrakoudis, Dimitris G ^a   Theocharis, John B ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Burned area mapping; Fuzzy complementary criterion (FuzCoC); Object based image analysis (OBIA); Pixel based classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920062764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212005     Document Type: Article

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