Classification and snow line detection for glacial areas using the polarimetric SAR image

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1721-1732

  Huang, Lei ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Tian, Bang Sen ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Liu, Jiu Liang ^a,b   Zhang, Rui ^c  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Polarimetric SAR; Snow line; Support vector machines; Target decomposition

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF INTERESTS; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; OPTICAL IMAGE; POLARIMETRIC SAR; PTS METHOD; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SAR IMAGES; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SNOW COVERS; SNOW LINE; SPATIAL COVERAGE; STUDY AREAS; TARGET DECOMPOSITION; WET SNOW;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

CLOUD COVER; GLACIOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; DONGKEMADI GLACIER; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 79954605076     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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