Value of dimensionality reduction for crop differentiation with multi-temporal imagery and machine learning

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 50-58

  Gilbertson, Jason Kane ^a   van Niekerk, Adriaan ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees; Crop type mapping; Feature selection; Machine learning; Pan sharpening; Principal components analysis; Random forest

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CROPS; DECISION TREES; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE COMPONENTS; MAPPING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; CROP TYPE MAPPINGS; PAN-SHARPENING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; RANDOM FORESTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85028461748     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2017.08.024     Document Type: Article

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