Glacier snow line detection on a polarimetric SAR image

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 584-588

  Li, Zhen ^a   Huang, Lei ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Tian, Bang Sen ^a  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

Glacier; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR); snow line; support vector machines (SVMs)

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHODS; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REGIONAL SCALE; SNOWLINE; STUDY AREAS; WET SNOW;

GLACIERS; ICE; POLARIMETERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SNOW;

EID: 84862788123     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2175697     Document Type: Article

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