Land use and land cover mapping in the Brazilian amazon using polarimetrie airborne P-band SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2956-2970

  Freitas, Corina Da Costa ^a   De Souza Soler, Luciana ^a,b   Sant'Anna, Sidnei João Siqueira ^a,c   Dutra, Luciano Vieira ^a   Santos, João Roberto Dos ^a   Mura, José Claudio ^a   Correia, António Henrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Image classification; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; KETONES; LAND USE; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET DRONES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); TERRAIN MAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 53849091404     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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