Improved recognition of spectrally mixed land cover classes using spatial textures and voting classifications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2124, Issue , 2001, Pages 217-227

  Chan, Jonathan C W ^a   De Fries, Ruth S ^a   Townshend, John R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Pattern recognition; Rating classifier; Spatial textures

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXTURES;

CARBON SINK; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; NATURAL FORESTS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL TEXTURE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TEXTURE FEATURES;

REFORESTATION;

EID: 84947914053     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44692-3_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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