Discrimination of agricultural crops in a tropical semi-arid region of Brazil based on L-band polarimetric airborne SAR data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 458-463

  Silva, Wagner F ^a   Rudorff, Bernardo F T ^a   Formaggio, Antonio R ^a   Paradella, Waldir R ^a   Mura, José C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Classification; Contextual classifier; Image classification; Multi polarization; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; AIRBORNE SAR; CLASSIFICATION; CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFIER; CROP CLASSIFICATION; GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; ICM ALGORITHMS; ITERATED CONDITIONAL MODES; MULTI-POLARIZATION; MULTIPLE POLARIZATIONS; PHASE INFORMATION; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC IMAGE; SEMI-ARID REGION; TEST SITE; TROPICAL CONDITIONS;

ARID REGIONS; CLASSIFIERS; CULTIVATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CROPS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BACKSCATTER; COFFEE; COTTON; GRAPHICAL METHOD; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PASTURE; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 69849109980     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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