The application of ensemble techniques for land-cover classification in arid lands

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 5613-5636

  Halmy, Marwa Waseem A ^a   Gessler, Paul E ^b  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DATA INTEGRATION; DECISION TREES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY OF CLASSIFICATIONS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; ROBUST CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DESERT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MACHINE LEARNING; REMOTE SENSING;

EGYPT;

EID: 84947483890     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1103915     Document Type: Article

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