SAR-based land cover classification of Kuwait

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6739-6778

  Kwarteng, A Y ^a   Dobson, M C ^b   Kellndorfer, J ^c   Williams, R ^d  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d EnviSense Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLARIZATION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ADAPTIVE SPATIAL FILTER; BHATTACHARYA DISTANCE; COMBINED INFORMATIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATIONS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; OVERALL ACCURACIES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

BACKSCATTER; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FILTER; GIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RADARSAT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 56049116234     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802209097     Document Type: Article

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