Capability assessment of fully polarimetric alos-palsar data for discriminating wet snow from other scattering types in mountainous regions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1177-1196

  Singh, Gulab ^a   Venkataraman, Gopalan ^b   Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Park, Sang Eun ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

rm H rm A bar alpha ; Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) PALSAR; glacier; Himalayas; polarization fraction; remote sensing; snow; wishart classifier

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; POLARIZATION FRACTIONS; WISHART;

BACKSCATTERING; GLACIERS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SNOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALSAR; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETER; SNOW COVER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 84891000124     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2248369     Document Type: Article

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