Object-based urban tree species classification using bi-temporal worldview-2 and worldview-3 images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 16917-16937

  Li, Dan ^a   Ke, Yinghai ^a   Gong, Huili ^a   Li, Xiaojuan ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bi temporal images; Object based method; Random forest; Support vector machine; Urban tree species classification

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFRARED DEVICES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; OBJECT-BASED METHODS; RANDOM FORESTS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL IMAGES; URBAN TREES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85015302475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215861     Document Type: Article

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