Capabilities of full-polarimetric palsar/alos for snowextent mapping

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Longépé, Nicolas ^a,b   Shimada, Masanobu ^b   Allain, Sophie ^a   Pottier, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Snow; Support Vector Machine (SVM); Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

DRY SNOW; FROZEN GROUND; SNOW COVERED AREA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM); WET SNOW;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SNOW;

EID: 67649766353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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