Evaluation of ALOS PALSAR data for high-resolution mapping of vegetated wetlands in Alaska

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7272-7297

  Clewley, Daniel ^a   Whitcomb, Jane ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a   McDonald, Kyle ^b   Chapman, Bruce ^c   Bunting, Peter ^d  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alaska; PALSAR; Random forests; SAR; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION TREES; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; METHANE; NASA; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALASKA; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; JAPANESE EARTH RESOURCES SATELLITES; PALSAR; RANDOM FORESTS; SAR; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84933557290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607272     Document Type: Article

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