Land cover classification in complex and fragmented agricultural landscapes of the Ethiopian highlands

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Eggen, Michael ^a   Ozdogan, Mutlu ^a   Zaitchik, Benjamin F ^b   Simane, Belay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Image segmentation; Land cover classification; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAND USE; MAPPING; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHIOPIA; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ALGORITHMS;

CULTIVATION;

EID: 85019663916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8121020     Document Type: Article

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