Agricultural crop classification using SAR tone and texture statistics

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-29

  Treitz, Paul M ^a   Howarth, Philip J ^b   Filho, Otto Rotunno ^c   Soulis, Eric D ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CROPS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GREY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX (GLCM); NEIGHBORING GREY-LEVEL DEPENDENCE MATRIX (NGLDM);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033893762     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2000.10874751     Document Type: Article

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