Knowledge-based land-cover classification using ers-1/jers-1 sar composites

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-99

  Craig Dobson, M ^a   Pierce, Leland E ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPOSITE IMAGES; KNOWLEDGE BASED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN SURFACES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0029780862     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.481896     Document Type: Article

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