Estimating boreal forest species type with airborne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2481-2505

  Wollersheim, Michael ^a,c   Collins, Michael J ^a   Leckie, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Intermap Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; FORESTRY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFIERS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; NON-PARAMETRIC CLASSIFIERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIZATION SIGNATURES; REMOTE SENSING CLASSIFICATION; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; TWO-STAGE CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; BOREAL FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

PICEA;

EID: 79957504748     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161003698377     Document Type: Article

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