Toward consistent regional-to-global-scale vegetation characterization using orbital sar systems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1396-1411

  Kellndorfer, Josef M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification image; ERS 1; JERS 1; Synthetic aperture radar (sar); Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); EDGE-PRESERVING SPECKLE REDUCTION PROCESS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032166889     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718844     Document Type: Article

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