The improvement of land cover classification by thermal remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8368-8390

  Sun, Liya ^a,b   Schulz, Karsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross validation; K NN; Land cover classification; Landsat image; Random forest; Thermal remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DECISION TREES; INFRARED DEVICES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

CROSS VALIDATION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT IMAGES; RANDOM FORESTS; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84937904899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70708368     Document Type: Article

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