Detection of environmental hazards through the feature-based fusion of optical and SAR data: a case study in southern Italy

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3345-3367

  Errico, Angela ^a   Angelino, Cesario Vincenzo ^a   Cicala, Luca ^a   Persechino, Giuseppe ^a   Ferrara, Claudia ^b   Lega, Massimiliano ^b   Vallario, Andrea ^b   Parente, Claudio ^b   Masi, Giuseppe ^c,d   Gaetano, Raffaele ^c,d   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^c,d   Amitrano, Donato ^c   Ruello, Giuseppe ^c   Verdoliva, Luisa ^c,d   Poggi, Giovanni ^c,d  

^a ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; REMOTE SENSING;

CATTLE BREEDINGS; DETECTION CAPABILITY; EASY-TO-USE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; OPTICAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CASERTA; ITALY;

BOS;

EID: 84937147130     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1054960     Document Type: Article

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