Land cover discrimination at Brazilian Amazon using region based classifier and stochastic distance

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2900-2903

  Silva, Wagner B ^a   Pereira, Luciana O ^a   Sant'Anna, Sidnei J S ^a   Freitas, Corina C ^a   Guimarães, Ricardo J P S ^a   Frery, Alejandro C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; Fusion; Region based classification; SAR; Stochastic Distances

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; LAND COVER; LAND-USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATIONS; LANDSAT; RADAR DATA; REGION-BASED; SAR; SAR DATA; STOCHASTIC DISTANCES;

GEOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80955136630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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