Production of the Japan 30-m land cover map of 2013-2015 using a random forests-based feature optimization approach

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Sharma, Ram C ^a   Tateishi, Ryutaro ^a   Hara, Keitarou ^b   Iizuka, Kotaro ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High resolution; Japan; Land cover; Landsat 8; Mapping; Multi spectral; Random forests; Textures; Topographic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION TREES; LAND USE; MAPPING; TEXTURES;

HIGH RESOLUTION; JAPAN; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MULTI-SPECTRAL; RANDOM FORESTS; TOPOGRAPHIC;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 84971489739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050429     Document Type: Article

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