Coherence-based land cover classification in forested areas of Chattisgarh, Central India, using environmental satellite - Advanced synthetic aperture radar data

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nizalapur, Vyjayanthi ^a   Madugundu, Rangaswamy ^a   Jha, Chandra Shekhar ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

coherence; ENVISAT ASAR; land cover classification; maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COHERENT LIGHT; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; ENVISAT ASAR; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; TROPICAL DECIDUOUS FOREST;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; INDIA; KAPPA NUMBER; CLASSIFICATION; SATELLITES;

EID: 80054071567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3557816     Document Type: Article

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