Toward Automated Land Cover Classification in Landsat Images Using Spectral Slopes at Different Bands

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1096-1104

  Aswatha, Shashaank M ^a   Mukherjee, Jayanta ^a   Biswas, Prabir K ^a   Aikat, Subhas ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Normalized spectral indices; satellite image classification; spectral slopes; temporal scene change analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; POST CLASSIFICATION; SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SCENE CHANGE; SPECTRAL INDICES; SPECTRAL SLOPES; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; SLOPE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85027498840     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2602390     Document Type: Article

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