Joint processing of landsat and ALOS-PALSAR data for forest mapping and monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-67

  Lehmann, Eric A ^a   Caccetta, Peter A ^a   Zhou, Zheng Shu ^a   McNeill, Stephen J ^b   Wu, Xiaoliang ^a   Mitchell, Anthea L ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; conditional probability network (CPN); data fusion; discriminant analysis; forest mapping and monitoring; Landsat TM; multitemporal processing; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALOS-PALSAR; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; FOREST MAPPING; LANDSAT TM; MULTI-TEMPORAL;

DATA FUSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

MONITORING;

ALOS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

DATA PROCESSING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PROBABILITY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84855472631     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2171495     Document Type: Article

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