Integrating pan-sharpening and classifier ensemble techniques to map an invasive plant (Spartina alterniflora) in an estuarine wetland using Landsat 8 imagery

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ai, Jinquan ^a   Gao, Wei ^a,b   Gao, Zhiqiang ^c   Shi, Runhe ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Liu, Chaoshun ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Estuarine; Image classification; invasive wetland plant; Landsat; S. alterniflora

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA FUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WETLANDS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; ESTUARINE; IMAGE FUSION ALGORITHMS; INTENSITY HUE SATURATIONS; LANDSAT; MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR; S. ALTERNIFLORA; WETLAND PLANTS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84964665906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.10.026001     Document Type: Article

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