Land cover classification of palsar images by knowledge based decision tree classi-fier and supervised classifiers based on sar observables

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn , Issue 30, 2011, Pages 47-70

  Mishra, P ^a   Singh, D ^a   Yamaguchi, Y ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; VEGETATION;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE-BASED DECISION TREES; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 79956370894     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERB11011405     Document Type: Article

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