Characterization of land cover types in TerraSAR-X images by combined analysis of speckle statistics and intensity information

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1911-1925

  Esch, Thomas ^a   Schenk, Andreas ^b   Ullmann, Tobias ^c   Thiel, Michael ^c   Roth, Achim ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a,c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; land cover (LC); speckle; statistical distribution; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); TerraSAR X (TSX); texture

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER INTENSITY; BARE SOILS; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; COLOR COMPOSITE IMAGE; COMBINED ANALYSIS; DISCRETE CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; HUMAN PERCEPTION; INTENSITY INFORMATION; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; LOCAL COEFFICIENT; LOCAL DEVELOPMENT; OPTICAL DATA; RADAR IMAGE; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SCATTER PLOTS; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE STATISTICS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STRIPMAP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; TEXTURAL INFORMATION; URBAN AREAS; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; SATELLITES; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; BARE SOIL; COLOR; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PERCEPTION; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA; WOODLAND;

EID: 79957664374     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2091644     Document Type: Article

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