Monitoring urban land cover in Rome, Italy, and its changes by single-polarization multitemporal SAR images

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-97

  Del Frate, Fabio ^a   Pacifici, Fabio ^a   Solimini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change detection; Coherence; Feature contribution; Land cover classification; Neural networks; Synthetic aperture radar; Texture; Urban development

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIXELS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES;

CHANGE DETECTION; COHERENCE; FEATURE CONTRIBUTION; LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DETECTION METHOD; ERS-1; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PIXEL; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 78649752023     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2008.2002221     Document Type: Article

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