Retrieval of forest stand age from SAR image texture for varying distance and orientation values of the gray level Co-Occurrence matrix

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-9

  Champion, Isabelle ^a   Germain, Christian ^b   Da Costa, Jean Pierre ^b   Alborini, Arnaud ^b   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass; forestry; image texture analysis; radar applications; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ENERGY AND ENTROPIES; FOREST STAND STRUCTURE; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; ORIENTATION PARAMETER; RADAR APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

BIOMASS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84888295517     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2244060     Document Type: Article

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