Enhancing land cover maps derived from landsat TM with multi-temporal SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1287-1290

  Solbo S ^a   Johansen, B ^a   Malnes, E ^a   Solheim, I ^b  

^a NORUT Information Technology   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boreal zone; Envisat ASAR; Landsat TM; Vegetation map

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

BOREAL ZONE; ENVISAT ASAR; LANDSAT TM; VEGETATION MAP;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33745699419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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