A new texture approach to discrimination of forest clearcut, canopy, and burned area using airborne C-band SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 555-563

  Wu, Dengru ^a   Linders, James ^b  

^a Technology Service Division   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Image classification; Image object detection; Image texture analysis

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

HARALICK FEATURES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032737173     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739113     Document Type: Article

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