Application of in-segment multiple sampling in object-based classification

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12138-12165

  Durić, Nataša ^a   Pehani, Peter ^b   Oštir, Krištof ^a,b  

^a Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies   (Slovenia)

^b ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

GEOBIA; In segment analysis; Kolmogorov Smirnov test statistics; Probability value; Sampling; Student's t test statistics; Urban land cover classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920089298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212138     Document Type: Article

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