Object-oriented crop mapping and monitoring using multi-temporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 96, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-46

  Jiao, Xianfeng ^a   Kovacs, John M ^a   Shang, Jiali ^b   McNairn, Heather ^b   Walters, Dan ^a   Ma, Baoluo ^b   Geng, Xiaoyuan ^b  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crop mapping; Crops; Object oriented classification; Phenological monitoring; Polarimetric decomposition; PolSAR

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; CROPS; POLARIZATION;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CROP MAPPING; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLSAR;

CROPS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CROP PLANT; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING METHOD; PHENOLOGY; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; ENTROPY; MAPPING; SATELLITE DATA; SOYBEAN; TREND ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVENA FATUA; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84904767350     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.06.014     Document Type: Article

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