Use of UK-DMC 2 and ALOS PALSAR for studying the age of oil palm trees in southern peninsular Malaysia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7424-7446

  Tan, Kian Pang ^a   Kanniah, Kasturi Devi ^a   Cracknell, Arthur Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; DISASTER MONITORING CONSTELLATIONS; GREY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; ITERATIVE SELF-ORGANIZING DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; TEXTURE MEASUREMENT;

PALM OIL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; LEAF AREA INDEX; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; POLARIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TEXTURE; VEGETABLE OIL;

MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

ELAEIS; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS;

EID: 84881644049     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.822601     Document Type: Article

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