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land cover classification

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  • [Alexander Brenning] Land cover classification is a standard remote-sensing task in which typically multispectralsatellite data is used to identify features such as land use. The detection of rock glaciers is aparticularly challenging task that requires the combination of satellite data with terrain analysisdata because their spectral signature alone is not distinct enough for their classification based onsatellite imagery alone. The performance improvements that can be achieved by selecting an optimalclassifier in this particular land cover classification problem are investigated...

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0574

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