Improving PolSAR land cover classification with radiometric correction of the coherency matrix

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 848-856

  Atwood, Donald K ^a   Small, David ^b   Gens, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advanced land observing satellite (ALOS) PALSAR; land cover classification; polarimetry; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; BOREAL FORESTS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COHERENCY MATRIX; CONFUSION MATRICES; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GRID POINTS; IMAGE COORDINATES; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RADAR GEOMETRY; SAR IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

FORESTRY; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADIOMETRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BRIGHTNESS; CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; POLARIMETRY; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863513225     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2186791     Document Type: Article

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