Radarsat-2 polarimetric SAR data for boreal forest classification using SVM and a wrapper feature selector

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

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1531-1538

  Maghsoudi, Yasser ^a   Collins, Michael J ^b   Leckie, Donald G ^c  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

class based; classification; feature selection; forest; PolSAR data; Wrapper

Indexed keywords

CLASS-BASED; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FOREST; FOREST CLASSIFICATION; POLSAR DATA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM; WRAPPER;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; OPTIMIZATION; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION; DATA; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RADAR; WRAPPERS;

EID: 84880287214     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2259219     Document Type: Article

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