Circa 2010 land cover of Canada: Local optimization methodology and product development

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Latifovic, Rasim ^a   Pouliot, Darren ^b   Olthof, Ian ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2010; Canada; Classification; Land cover; Land cover change; Landsat; Randomforest algorithm

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING;

2010; CANADA; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85034792602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9111098     Document Type: Article

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