Random forest classification of wetland landcovers from multi-sensor data in the arid region of Xinjiang, China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Tian, Shaohong ^a   Zhang, Xianfeng ^a   Tian, Jie ^b   Sun, Quan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid wetland classification; Object oriented; Phenology; Random forest; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; TEXTURES; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS; MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OBJECT ORIENTED; PHENOLOGY; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; RANDOM FORESTS; WETLAND CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85019762868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8110954     Document Type: Article

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