Pixel Unmixing at the Sub-pixel Scale Based on Land Cover Class Probabilities: Application to Urban Areas

Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 59-76

  Zhan, Qingming ^a   Molenaar, Martien ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Land cover classification using MLC algorithm; Maximum likelihood classifier (MLC); Pixel unmixing; Pixel unmixing in urban areas; Posterior probability in detecting mixed pixels; Single pixel training approach; SPOT HRV imagery in urban land cover classification; Sub pixel mapping techniques

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MIXED PIXEL; PIXEL UNMIXING; SINGLE PIXEL; SUB-PIXEL MAPPING; URBAN AREAS; URBAN LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION;

PIXELS;

EID: 84948749397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470035269.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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