A bayesian based method to generate a synergetic land-cover map from existing land-cover products

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5589-5613

  Xu, Guang ^a,b   Zhang, Hairong ^c   Chen, Baozhang ^a,c   Zhang, Huifang ^a,b   Yan, Jianwu ^a,b   Chen, Jing ^a   Che, Mingliang ^a,b   Lin, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Dou, Xianming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayes theory; Data fusing; IGBP; Land cover; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS;

BAYES THEORY; DATA FUSING; IGBP; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER INFORMATIONS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84933535597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6065589     Document Type: Article

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