Classifying multilevel imagery from SAR and optical sensors by decision fusion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1457-1466

  Waske, Björn ^a   Van Der Linden, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Multilevel classification; Multisensor data; Random forests (RF); Support vector machines (SVM); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SENSORS; RADAR; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; VECTORS;

DATA FUSION; MULTILEVEL CLASSIFICATION; MULTISENSOR DATA; RANDOM FORESTS (RF); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR);

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 45849101525     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916089     Document Type: Article

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