An object-based classification approach for surface water detection

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 218-227

  Xiao, G ^a   Tien, David ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

aerial imagery; decision tree; DT; spectral feature; surface water detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921958141     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2010.036577     Document Type: Article

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