A Statistical Approach for Topographic Correction of Satellite Images by Using Spatial Context Information

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 236-246

  Gu, Degui ^a,b   Gillespie, Alan R ^a   Adams, John B ^a,b   Weeks, Robin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest mapping; Image classification; Remote sensing; Spatial contextual information; Topographic correction

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOREST MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGES; SPATIAL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032710246     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739158     Document Type: Article

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