Comparative study on the performance of multiparameter sar data for operational urban areas extraction using textural features

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 728-732

  Corbane, Christina ^a,b   Baghdadi, Nicolas ^c   Descombes, Xavier ^d   Junior, Geraldo Wilson ^e   Villeneuve, Nicolas ^f   Petit, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) model; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BAND FREQUENCIES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (GMRF) MODEL; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MULTIPARAMETER SAR; PHASED ARRAYS; SAR IMAGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRASAR-X; TEXTURAL FEATURE; TEXTURE WINDOW; URBAN AREAS; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 70350324022     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2024225     Document Type: Article

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