Urban land use mapping using high resolution SAR data based on density analysis and contextual information

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 738-749

  Chen, Zhaohua ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Guindon, Bert ^a   Esch, Thomas ^b   Roth, Achim ^b   Shang, Jiali ^c  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; GENERAL CLASS; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTENSITY INFORMATION; LINEAR FEATURE; LOW DENSITY; MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN BLOCKS; URBAN LAND USE;

LAND USE; MAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84874729504     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-002     Document Type: Article

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