Impact of categorical and spatial scale on supervised crop classification using remote sensing

Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-20

  Löw, Fabian ^a   Duveiller, Grégory ^b   Conrad, Christopher ^a   Michel, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural monitoring; Categorical scale; Crop classification; Pixel purity; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923316459     PISSN: 14328364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/pfg/2015/0252     Document Type: Article

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