Land use and land cover classification using radarsat-2 polarimetric SAR image

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 198-203

  Qi, Z ^a   Yeh, A G ^a   Li, X ^b   Lin, Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Land cover; Land user; Polarization; RADARSAT; SAR

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

LAND COVER; LAND-USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATIONS; OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; POLARIMETRIC TARGET DECOMPOSITION; RADARSAT; SAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84859344354     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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