Land cover classification based on single-polarized VHR SAR images using texture information derived via speckle analysis

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1875-1878

  Esch, Thomas ^a   Schenk, Andreas ^b   Thiel, Michael ^c   Ullmann, Tobias ^c   Schmidt, Martin ^a,c   Dech, Stefan ^a,c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land cover; SAR; Speckle; Statistics; TerraSAR X; Texture

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECKLE; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLES; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MULTIPLE SCATTERING PROCESS; TERRASAR-X; TEXTURAL INFORMATION; TEXTURE INFORMATION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 78650891142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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