Object-based fusion of multitemporal multiangle ENVISAT ASAR and HJ-1B multispectral data for urban land-cover mapping

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1998-2006

  Ban, Yifang ^a   Jacob, Alexander ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Edge aware region growing and merging (EARGM); ENVISAT advanced synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (ASAR); fusion; HJ 1B; multitemporal; segmentation; urban land cover

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; HJ-1B; MULTI-TEMPORAL; REGION GROWING; URBAN LAND COVER;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDFORMS; MERGING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVISAT-1; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; OPTICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84875675131     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2236560     Document Type: Article

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