Polarimetric SAR data in land cover mapping in boreal zone

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3652-3662

  Lönnqvist, Anne ^a   Rauste, Yrjö ^a   Molinier, Matthieu ^b   Häme, Tuomas ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array type L band Synthetic Aperture Radar (ALOS PALSAR); classification; land cover; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; DUAL-POLARIZED; INTENSITY DATA; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; LAND AREAS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER MAPPING; LOW RESOLUTION; PEAT LAND; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC FEATURES; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; URBAN AREAS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; BOREAL FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77957005457     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2048115     Document Type: Article

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