Consistent classification of landsat time series with an improved automatic adaptive signature generalization algorithm

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Dannenberg, Matthew P ^a   Hakkenberg, Christopher R ^b   Song, Conghe ^a,b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Land cover and land use change (LCLUC); Landsat; National Land Cover Database (NLCD); Random forest; Signature extension; Time series; Topography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUDGET CONTROL; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; LAND USE; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SEMANTICS; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

LAND COVER; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; RANDOM FORESTS; SIGNATURE EXTENSION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84983753038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080691     Document Type: Article

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