Textural information of multitemporal ers-l and jers-1 sar images with applications to land and forest type classification in boreal zone

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 680-689

  Kurvonen, Lauri ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ers 1 synthetic aperture radar (sar); Forest type classification; JERS 1 SAR; Land cover classification; Sar image texture; Seasonal effects on sar texture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FOREST TYPE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE TEXTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033100738     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752185     Document Type: Article

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