Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection for Object-Based Land Cover Classification based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series Using Google Earth Engine

Remote Sensing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Stromann, Oliver ^a   Nascetti, Andrea ^a   Yousif, Osama ^a   Ban, Yifang ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EO big data; Google Earth Engine; MSI; Object based classification; SAR

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; ENGINES; LAND USE; OBSERVATORIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION METHOD; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; GOOGLE EARTHS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION;

EID: 85079607757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/RS12010076     Document Type: Article

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