Detecting and downscaling wet areas on boreal landscapes

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-183

  Kaheil, Yasir H ^a   Creed, Irena F ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Downscaling; Hydrologically sensitive areas; Hydrology; Learning machines; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture imaging; Wavelet transforms; Wet areas; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DOWNSCALING; HYDROLOGICALLY SENSITIVE AREAS; LEARNING MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; WET AREAS;

DATA FUSION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; HYDROLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER; WETLANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 65049083622     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2010001     Document Type: Article

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