Use of multi-polarimetric enhanced images in SIR-C/X-SAR land-cover classification

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E80-B, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1696-1702

  Nagai, Takeshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Yamada, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Radar polarimetry; Remote sensing; SAR image analysis; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VECTORS;

LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR (SIR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0031275852     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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