New global forest/non-forest maps from ALOS PALSAR data (2007-2010)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-31

  Shimada, Masanobu ^a   Itoh, Takuya ^b   Motooka, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Manabu ^a   Shiraishi, Tomohiro ^a   Thapa, Rajesh ^a   Lucas, Richard ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALOS; ALOS 2; Classification; Forest and non forest; Global SAR mosaic; L band SAR; PALSAR; Radar backscatter; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALOS; ALOS-2; FOREST AND NON-FOREST; GLOBAL SAR MOSAIC; L-BAND SAR; PALSAR; RADAR BACKSCATTER;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ALOS; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; FOREST RESOURCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JERS-1; MAP; PALSAR; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84909647782     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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