Assessment of L-band SAR data at different polarization combinations for crop and other landuse classification

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn , Issue 36, 2011, Pages 303-321

  Haldar, D ^a   Das, A ^a   Mohan, S ^a   Pal, O ^b   Hooda, R S ^b   Chakraborty, M ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b Haryana State Remote Sensing Application Centre (HARSAC)   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY POLARIZATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COMPLEX WISHART DISTRIBUTIONS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; DISTANCE MEASURE; GROUND TRUTH; L-BAND SAR; LANDUSE CLASSIFICATIONS; LINE OF SIGHT; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; RADAR DATA; SAR DATA; SCATTERING INFORMATION; SINGLE POLARIZATION; STATE FARMS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

CROPS; FARMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 83355177657     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERB11071106     Document Type: Article

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