Multitemporal ERS-1 SAR data for crop classification: A sequential-masking approach

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 438-

  Ban, Yifang ^a   Howarth, Philip J ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

KAPPA COEFFICIENT; MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SEQUENTIAL MASKING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033348373     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1999.10874743     Document Type: Article

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