Multitemporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 SAR data for urban land cover mapping through a dictionary-based and a rule-based model selection in a contextual SEM algorithm

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-151

  Niu, Xin ^a   Ban, Yifang ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPLEX URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; FINITE MIXTURE MODELING; SEMI-SUPERVISED ALGORITHM; STOCHASTIC EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; URBAN LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; URBAN LAND COVER MAPPINGS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; POLARIMETERS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84882238279     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m13-019     Document Type: Article

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