An advanced system for the automatic classification of multitemporal SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1321-1334

  Bruzzone, Lorenzo ^a   Marconcini, Mattia ^a   Wegmüller, Urs ^b   Wiesmann, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Backscattering temporal variability; Classification; Feature extraction; Image analysis; Long term coherence; Multiclass problems; Multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BACKSCATTERING TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; CLASSIFICATION; LONG-TERM COHERENCE; MULTICLASS PROBLEMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 3042559631     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.826821     Document Type: Article

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