Discriminating lithology in arctic environments from Earth orbit, an evaluation of satellite imagery and classification algorithms

• Main Author: Leverington, David William
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Cape Smith; Nunavut; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2049

Empirical investigations of classification algorithms for lithological discrimination were performed for field areas on Melville Island, Nunavut, and in the Cape Smith Belt of northern Quebec. These investigations suggest that a neural network classifier (a majority-vote consensus algorithm that com...