Professor, Dept. of Environmental Resources Engineering, SUNY ESF

Fifteen years of published land cover classifiers

A meta-analysis covered fifteen years of published works in the top five RS journals. We identified the added value of different pre-processing techniques and the relative benefits of popular classification methods to guide practitioners and researchers.

Further Information: R. Khatami, G. Mountrakis, S. Stehman (2016). A meta-analysis of remote sensing research on land-cover image classification processes: A guide for practitioners and directions for future research. Remote Sensing of Environment, 177, 89–100.[0.8MB pdf]