Optimal combination of classification algorithms and feature ranking methods for object-based classification of submeter resolution Z/I-Imaging DMC imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4651-4677

  Cánovas García, Fulgencio ^a,b   Alonso Sarría, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature selection; Hughes effect; Object based image analysis; Photogrammetric camera; Random forest

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; HUGHES EFFECT; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; RANDOM FORESTS; WEIGHTED K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84937837804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404651     Document Type: Article

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