Texture in airborne SAR imagery of tropical forest and its relationship to forest regeneration stage

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1333-1349

  Luckman, A J ^a   Frery, A C ^b   Yanasse, C C F ^c   Groom, G B ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais   (United Kingdom)

^d D   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REVEGETATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICS;

TROPICAL FOREST REGENERATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

FOREST; LANDSAT TM; RADAR; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; SAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURE; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0031113725     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697218458     Document Type: Article

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