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Original Articles

Contributions of principal components to discrimination of classes of land cover in multi-spectral imagery

Pages 779-787 | Received 23 Sep 1994, Accepted 16 Dec 1994, Published online: 16 May 2007
 

Abstract

Discriminant analysis and canonical variates analysis on principal components of a number of extracts from multi-spectral images showed that low order components with large eigenvalues are not necessarily the most important for distinguishing classes of landcover and discarding components with small eigenvalues may reduce the accuracy of discrimination. It is therefore inadvisable to use principal components analysis for reducing the number of wavebands used for discriminant analysis.

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R. M. LARK

Process Engineering Division, Silsoe Research Institute, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford MK45 4HS.

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