Assessment of ALOS PALSAR 50 m orthorectified FBD data for regional land cover classification by support vector machines

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2135-2150

  Longépé, Nicolas ^a   Rakwatin, Preesan ^b   Isoguchi, Osamu ^c   Shimada, Masanobu ^c   Uryu, Yumiko ^d   Yulianto, Kokok ^e  

^a CLS   (France)

^b GEO INFORMATICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^e World Wide Fund for Nature Indonesia   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Features selection; forest; land cover classification; support vector machines (SVM); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); textures analysis

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; DUAL-POLARIZED; FEATURES SELECTION; FOREST; FOREST MONITORING; GLOBAL SCALE; HIGH POTENTIAL; INDONESIA; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LOCAL SCALE; NATURAL FORESTS; PEATLAND; PHASED ARRAYS; RECURSIVE FEATURE ELIMINATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SUMATRA; SVM-BASED CLASSIFIERS; SWATH WIDTH; TEST SITE; TEXTURAL PARAMETERS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; SPACECRAFT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALOS; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; PEATLAND; PIXEL; RAINFOREST; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; RADAR; TEXTURE;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; RIAU; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 79957668611     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2102041     Document Type: Article

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