Polarimetric radarsat-2 wetland classificationusing the Touzi decomposition: Case of the Lac Saint-Pierre ramsar wetland

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 491-506

  Gosselin, Gabriel ^a   Touzi, Ridha ^a   Cavayas, François ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INCOHERENT SCATTERING; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL; POLARIMETRIC CLASSIFICATION; WETLAND CLASSIFICATION; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84896375540     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m14-002     Document Type: Article

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