A statistical-measure-based adaptive land cover classification algorithm by efficient utilization of Polarimetric SAR observables

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2889-2900

  Mishra, Pooja ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Classification; optimization; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar observable; separability index; statistics

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SEPARABILITY INDEX;

POLARIMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; OPTIMIZATION; PALSAR; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896319557     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2267548     Document Type: Article

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