An end-to-end error model for classification methods based on temporal change or polarization ratio of SAR intensities

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3521-3538

  Bouvet, Alexandre ^a,b   Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Floury, Nicolas ^c   MacKlin, Trevor ^d  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Image classification; Polarization ratio; Synthetic aperture radar; Temporal change

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION ERROR; CHANNEL GAINS; CLASS PROBABILITIES; CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; ERROR MODEL; INTENSITY RATIO; MAPPING METHOD; POLARIZATION RATIO; POLARIZATION RATIOS; PROBABILITY OF ERRORS; RICE FIELDS; ROBUST CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CROSSTALK; ERRORS; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PADDY FIELD; PARAMETERIZATION; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 77956061358     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2047399     Document Type: Article

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