Rain forest classification based on SAR texture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 1095-1104

  Oliver, Chris J ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

RAIN FOREST CLASSIFICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR TEXTURE;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0033893211     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841988     Document Type: Article

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