Mapping land cover in complex Mediterranean landscapes using Landsat: Improved classification accuracies from integrating multi-seasonal and synthetic imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 527-536

  Senf, Cornelius ^a   Leitão, Pedro J ^a   Pflugmacher, Dirk ^a   van der Linden, Sebastian ^a   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image classification; Landsat; Mediterranean; Phenology; Pseudo steppe; STARFM

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LANDSAT; MEDITERRANEAN; PHENOLOGY; PSEUDO-STEPPE; STARFM;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84922219472     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.018     Document Type: Article

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