Classification of Boreal forest cover types using SAR images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 270-281

  Saatchi, Sasan S ^a   Rignot, Eric ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MAPPING; MAPS; MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BAYESIAN MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI CLASSIFIER; COVER TYPES;

RADAR IMAGING;

BOREAL FOREST; IMAGE ACCURACY; LAND COVER; RADAR; SAR; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CANADA, SASKATCHEWAN, PRINCE ALBERT;

EID: 0031171879     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00181-2     Document Type: Article

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