A Scalable Geospatial Web Service for Near Real-Time, High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4665-4674

  Karantzalos, Konstantinos ^a   Bliziotis, Dimitris ^a   Karmas, Athanasios ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automation; classification; earth observation (EO); land cover; land use; machine learning; multispectral

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ORBITS; QUERY PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-CLASS SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

WEB SERVICES;

GIS; INTERNET; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT; MACHINE LEARNING; MAPPING; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

GREECE;

EID: 84941254447     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2461556     Document Type: Article

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