Ensemble learning with multiple classifiers and polarimetric features for polarized SAR image classification

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 239-251

  Samat, Alim ^a   Du, Peijun ^a   Ali Baig, Muhammad Hasan ^b   Chakravarty, Sumit ^c   Cheng, Liang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^c NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; HOT RESEARCH TOPICS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC FEATURES; SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

DECOMPOSITION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84898442749     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.80.3.239     Document Type: Article

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