Assessing the potential to operationalize shoreline sensitivity mapping: Classifying multiple wide fine quadrature polarized RADARSAT-2 and Landsat 5 scenes with a single random forest model

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13528-13563

  Banks, Sarah ^a   Millard, Koreen ^b   Pasher, Jon ^a   Richardson, Murray ^b   Wang, Huili ^a   Duffe, Jason ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Classification; Landsat 5; RADARSAT 2; Random Forest; Shorelines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; MAPPING; OIL SPILLS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

ARCTIC; LANDSAT-5; RADARSAT-2; RANDOM FORESTS; SHORELINES;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 84945942727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71013528     Document Type: Article

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