Synergistic use of optical and PolSAR imagery for urban impervious surface estimation

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-102

  Guo, Huadong ^a   Yang, Huaining ^b,c   Sun, Zhongchang ^a   Li, Xinwu ^a   Wang, Cuizhen ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE SUPPORT SERVICE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DECISION-TREE ALGORITHM; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE ESTIMATION; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SPECTRAL SIMILARITY; URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; TALL BUILDINGS;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PIXEL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING;

EID: 84892170402     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.80.1.91     Document Type: Article

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