Combining land cover products using a minimum divergence and a Bayesian data fusion approach

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 806-826

  Gengler, Sarah ^a   Bogaert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Discordant data sources; Kullback Leibler divergence; maximum entropy

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFORMATION; LAND COVER; MAP; MAPPING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM;

EID: 85037710946     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2017.1413577     Document Type: Article

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