Discriminating urban environments using multiscale texture and multiple SAR images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 3797-3812

  Dell'Acqua, Fabio ^a   Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CO-OCCURRENCE ALGORITHM; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK; IMAGE CHARACTERIZATION; LAND COVER; MULTISCALE TEXTURE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33750053276     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600557572     Document Type: Article

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