The effects of point or polygon based training data on randomForest classification accuracy of wetlands

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4002-4025

  Corcoran, Jennifer ^a   Knight, Joseph ^b   Pelletier, Keith ^b   Rampi, Lian ^b   Wang, Yan ^b  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

LiDAR; Object based image analysis; Optical and infrared sensors; Segmentation; Topographic; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPOUND TOPOGRAPHIC INDICES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; INFRA-RED SENSOR; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR POINT CLOUD DATUM; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84937941472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404002     Document Type: Article

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