Joint use of ICESat/GLAS and landsat data in land cover classification: A case study in Henan Province, China

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

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 511-522

  Liu, Caixia ^a,b   Huang, Huabing ^a   Gong, Peng ^a,c,d,e   Wang, Xiaoyi ^a,b   Wang, Jie ^a   Li, Wenyu ^a,b   Li, Congcong ^a   Li, Zhan ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; land cover; lidar; random forest (RF); support vector machines (SVMs); waveform metrics

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DECISION TREES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; RANDOM FORESTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVMS); SURFACE SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; WAVE FORMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GLAS; ICESAT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HENAN;

EID: 85027940644     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2327032     Document Type: Article

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