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Overview of Earth Imagery Classification

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This chapter overviews earth observation imagery big data and its general classification methods. We introduce different types of earth observation imagery big data and their societal applications. We also summarize some general classification algorithms. Open computational challenges are also identified in this area.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Zhe Jiang

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

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Jiang, Z., Shekhar, S. (2017). Overview of Earth Imagery Classification. In: Spatial Big Data Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60195-3_3

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