Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, 4th Edition
by Morton John Canty
Shortly after the manuscript for the first edition of this book went to the publisher, ENVI 4.3 appeared along with, among other new features, a support vector machine classifier. Although my decision not to include the SVM in the original text was a conscious one (I balked at the thought of writing my own IDL implementation), this event did point to a rather glaring omission in a book purporting to be partly about land use/land cover classification. So, almost immediately, I began to dream of a Revised Second Edition and to pester CRC Press for a contract. This was happily forthcoming and the present edition now has a fairly long section on supervised classification with support vector machines.
The SVM is just ...
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