Change detection of boreal forest using bi-temporal ALOS PALSAR backscatter data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 120-128

  Pantze, Andreas ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b   Fransson, Johan E S ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clear cut; Data fusion; Histogram matching; L band; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALOS PALSAR; BACKSCATTER DATA; BOREAL FORESTS; CHANGE DETECTION; CLEAR-CUT; HISTOGRAM MATCHING; L-BAND; THRESHOLDING;

DATA FUSION;

ALOS; AUTOMATION; BACKSCATTER; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; DETECTION METHOD; HISTOGRAM; MONITORING; PALSAR; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION MAPPING; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84909585663     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.050     Document Type: Article

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