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marked. They were all correctly classified. Fig. 2.
(2) The large artificial features were recognised with differing accuracies by the classifier
algorithms,
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Fig 2: Digital map by Maximum Likelihood algorithm. Note the outlines of
the major landforms: a = River Benue; b = Sand island: c = Sand Bar; d =
Settlements while the physiographic — soil units are described by the pixels
and quantified as on legend.