Polarimetric SAR observables for land cover classification: Analyses and comparisons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6363, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alberga, Vito ^a   Satalino, Giuseppe ^b   Staykova, Doroteya K ^c  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Earth observation; Image classification; Neural networks; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; LAND USE; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS;

EARTH OBSERVATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) POLARIMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33846218715     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.691088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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