Temporal optimisation of image acquisition for land cover classification with random forest and MODIS time-series

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 136-146

  Nitze, Ingmar ^a,b   Barrett, Brian ^a   Cawkwell, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land cover classification; Machine learning; MODIS; Random forest

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84920663550     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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