Comparison of the performance of L-band polarimetric parameters for land cover classification

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 629-643

  Entezari, Iman ^a,d   Motagh, Mahdi ^a,b   Mansouri, Babak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; BACKSCATTERING CROSS SECTION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SCATTERING MATRIX ELEMENTS; TARGET DECOMPOSITION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84871902429     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m12-051     Document Type: Article

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