Seasonal variation of land cover classification accuracy of Landsat 8 images in Burkina Faso

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 7W3, 2015, Pages 455-460

  Liu, J ^a   Heiskanen, J ^a   Aynekulu, E ^b   Pellikka, P K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Classification; Phenology; Random forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DECISION TREES; DROUGHT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

BURKINA FASO; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DRY SEASONS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; PHENOLOGY; RANDOM FORESTS; SEASONAL TROPICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WET SEASON;

LANDSAT;

EID: 84930395710     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-W3-455-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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