Polarimetric SAR feature selection using a genetic algorithm

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-36

  Ataollah, Haddadi G ^a   Sahebi, Mahmod Reza ^a   Mansourian, Ali ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DATA SETS; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; INCOHERENT DECOMPOSITION; LAND COVER; MAN MADE OBJECTS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84863336517     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-013     Document Type: Article

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