A refined classification approach by integrating Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI) and RADARSAT-2 imagery for land-use and land-cover mapping in a tropical area

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2358-2375

  Sameen, Maher Ibrahim ^a   Nahhas, Faten Hamed ^a   Buraihi, Faez Hussein ^a   Pradhan, Biswajeet ^a,b   Shariff, Abdul Rashid B Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; LAND USE AND LAND COVER MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84978405422     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1176273     Document Type: Article

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