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Self Organizing Map (SOM) Usage in LULC Classification

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Kohonen map; Self organizing map usage; SOM usage; Artificial neural network

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Architecture of a typical Kohonen one-dimensional SOM network [2]

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Panda, S. (2008). Self Organizing Map (SOM) Usage in LULC Classification. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1181

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