A Machine Learning approach for automatic land cover mapping from DSLR images over the Maltese Islands

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 99, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-10

  Gauci, A ^a   Abela, J ^a   Austad, M ^a   Cassar, L F ^a   Zarb Adami, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Land cover mapping; Machine learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LANDFORMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AERIAL IMAGERY; CHANGE ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND COVER MAPPING; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MACHINE-LEARNING; MAPPING ANALYSIS; RASTER DATA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

DECISION TREES;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HARDWARE; LAND COVER; MACHINE LEARNING; PIXEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

MALTA [SOUTHERN EUROPE];

EID: 85035037271     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.09.014     Document Type: Article

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