Multitemporal classification of river floodplain vegetation using time series of UAV images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2018, Pages

  van Iersel, Wimala ^a   Straatsma, Menno ^a   Middelkoop, Hans ^a   Addink, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multitemporal; OBIA; Random forest classification; UAV imagery; Vegetation monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DECISION TREES; ECOLOGY; FLOODS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTITEMPORAL CLASSIFICATION; OBIA; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION MONITORING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85050481016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10071144     Document Type: Article

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