Morphological operators applied to X-band SAR for urban land use classification

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chini, Marco ^a   Pacifici, Fabio ^b   Emery, William J ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Neural networks; Urban land use; Very high resolution synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING IMAGES; CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; SPATIAL DOMAINS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN LAND USE; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING; GEOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MORPHOLOGY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77951264810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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