Towards fully automatic generation of land cover maps from polarimetric and metric-resolution SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3102-3105

  Pratola, C ^a   Del Greco, M ^a   Del Frate, F ^a   Schiavon, G ^a   Solimini, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information mining; Land cover; Neural Networks; Polarimetry; SAR; Very high resolution

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONFORMAL MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; INFORMATION MINING; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER MAPS; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 78650873486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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