Comparing Landsat water index methods for automated water classification in eastern Australia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 175, Issue , 2016, Pages 167-182

  Fisher, Adrian ^a,b   Flood, Neil ^a,c   Danaher, Tim ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^d OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ETM+; Landsat; Linear discriminant analysis; OLI; TM; Water

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REFLECTION; THULIUM; WATER;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ETM; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; LANDSAT; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; OLI;

PIXELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; THEMATIC MAPPING; THRESHOLD; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; SOUTH WALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84954468335     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.055     Document Type: Article

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