Discrimination of mangrove forests and characterization of adjoining land cover classes using temporal C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar data: A case study of Sundarbans

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-131

  Kumar, Tanumi ^a   Patnaik, C ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

C band SAR; Decision rule classification; Mangrove forests; Multi temporal; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; MANGROVE; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SUNDARBANS;

EID: 84880262812     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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