Evaluation of ALOS PALSAR imagery for burned area mapping in greece using object-based classification

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5680-5701

  Polychronaki, Anastasia ^a   Gitas, Ioannis Z ^a   Veraverbeke, Sander ^b   Debien, Annekatrien ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Applied Deep Learning DevOps Team   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fire severity; Mediterranean landscape; Multi temporal SAR

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; FIRE SEVERITY; MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

FIRES;

EID: 84904648437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5115680     Document Type: Article

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