Analysis of uncertainty in multi-temporal object-based classification

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-106

  Löw, Fabian ^a   Knöfel, Patrick ^a   Conrad, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification uncertainty; Crop classification; Entropy; Multi date; Random forest regression; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DECISION TREES; ENTROPY; ERRORS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IRRIGATION CANALS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CROP CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-DATE; RANDOM FORESTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ALGORITHMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; ENTROPY; GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84927598104     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.03.004     Document Type: Article

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