Land-cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon with the integration of Landsat ETM+ and Radarsat data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 5447-5459

  Lu, D ^a   Batistella, M ^b   Moran, E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; DATA FUSION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADAR IMAGING;

GREY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS; RADARSAT DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 37748999591     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701227596     Document Type: Article

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