Discrimination of peatlands in tropical swamp forests using dual-polarimetric SAR and Landsat ETM data

International Journal of Image and Data Fusion

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-270

  Wijaya, Arief ^a,b   Marpu, Prashanth Reddy ^c   Gloaguen, Richard ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canonical discriminant analysis; Dual polarimetry; Maximum likelihood classification; Peatlands; Scattering entropy; TerraSAR X; Tropical forests; angle

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958737134     PISSN: 19479832     EISSN: 19479824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2010.495323     Document Type: Article

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