Decision fusion and non-parametric classifiers for land use mapping using multi-temporal RapidEye data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 191-204

  Löw, Fabian ^a   Conrad, Christopher ^a   Michel, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural land use; Decision fusion; High resolution; Multi temporal; RapidEye; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CROPS; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; LAND USE; MAPPING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; DECISION FUSION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI-TEMPORAL; RAPIDEYE; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; CROP PLANT; DATA SET; DECISION ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; PROBABILITY; RAPIDEYE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84942546109     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.07.001     Document Type: Article

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