Classification of tropical vegetation using multifrequency partial SAR polarimetry

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-137

  Lardeux, Cédric ^a   Frison, Pierre Louis ^b   Tison, Cédric ^c   Souyris, Jean Claude ^c   Stoll, Benoît ^d   Fruneau, Bénédicte ^b   Rudant, Jean Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d Universite de Polynesie Francaise   (France)

Author keywords

Compact polarization (CP); partial polarimetry; radar polarimetry; supervised classification; support vector machine (SVM); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tropical vegetation; Tubuai

Indexed keywords

COMPACT POLARIZATION; PARTIAL POLARIMETRY; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM); TROPICAL VEGETATION; TUBUAI;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ELLIPSOMETRY; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAPS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650943890     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2053836     Document Type: Article

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