Multisensoral topsoil mapping in the semiarid lake Manyara Region, Northern Tanzania

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9563-9586

  Bachofer, Felix ^a   Quénéhervé, Geraldine ^a   Hochschild, Volker ^a   Maerker, Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ASTER; Multiscale; Multisensoral; SAR; SVM; Topographical indices; Topsoil mapping; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING; SOILS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ASTER; MULTISCALE; MULTISENSORAL; SAR; SVM; TOPOGRAPHICAL INDICES; WORLDVIEW-2;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84939426589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70809563     Document Type: Article

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