Probability density components analysis: A new approach to treatment and classification of SAR images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2989-3019

  De Carvalho Júnior, Osmar Abílio ^a   Maciel, Luz Marilda de Moraes ^b   de Carvalho, Ana Paula Ferreira ^b   Guimarães, Renato Fontes ^a   Silva, Cristiano Rosa ^a   Gomes, Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso ^a   Silva, Nilton Correia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária Coordenação Geral de Meio Ambiente DTM   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALOS; Amazon forest; Frequency histogram; PALSAR

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PHOTOMAPPING;

ALOS; AMAZON FORESTS; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; FREQUENCY HISTOGRAMS; PALSAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY CURVE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR;

EID: 84898075644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6042989     Document Type: Article

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