Random forest classification of salt marsh vegetation habitats using quad-polarimetric airborne SAR, elevation and optical RS data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-129

  Van Beijma, Sybrand ^a,b   Comber, Alexis ^b   Lamb, Alistair ^a  

^a AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne polarimetric SAR; Coastal zone management; Polarimetric decompostion; Random forest classification; Salt marsh habitats

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COASTAL ZONES; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; REGIONAL PLANNING; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; VEGETATION;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSTION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; SALT MARSHES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84899769183     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.010     Document Type: Article

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