Mapping paddy rice with multitemporal ALOS/PALSAR imagery in southeast China

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6301-6315

  Zhang, Yuan ^a   Wang, Cuizhen ^b   Wu, Jiaping ^a   Qi, Jiaguo ^c   Salas, William A ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Applied Geosolutions LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; LAND USE; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICS;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; LAND USE/LAND COVER; MULTI-POLARIZATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; ZHEJIANG PROVINCE;

MAPPING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; CLOUD COVER; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; PADDY FIELD; RAINFALL; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA;

EID: 77449131719     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902842391     Document Type: Article

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