“…For wetlands, improvements in classification accuracy relative to the maximum likelihood method have been reported with, e.g., classification trees (Davranche et al, 2010;Na et al, 2009), support vector machines (SVM; Fung et al, 2009;Sanchez-Hernandez et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2012), and artificial neural networks (Berberoglu et al, 2004;Fung et al, 2009;Han et al, 2003;Zeng et al, 2007). However, little is still known on relative performance of various supervised approaches, and very few comprehensive method comparisons have been reported so far (Clinton et al, 2010b;Richmond, 2011).…”