Comparative analysis of MODIS time-series classification using support vector machines and methods based upon distance and similarity measures in the brazilian cerrado-caatinga boundary

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 12160-12191

  Abade, Natanael Antunes ^a,b   De Carvalho, Osmar Abílio ^b   Guimarães, Renato Fontes ^b   De Oliveira, Sandro Nunes ^b,c  

^a Instituto do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Hídricos do Distrito Federal Gerência de Reserva Legal   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c Engineering Department   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caatinga; Cerrado; Euclidian distance measure; MODIS; Spectral angle mapper; Spectral correlation mapper

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

CAATINGA; CERRADO; EUCLIDIAN DISTANCE; MODIS; SPECTRAL ANGLE MAPPERS; SPECTRAL CORRELATION;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84942532243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70912160     Document Type: Article

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