Evaluation of polarimetric SAR decomposition for classifying wetland vegetation types

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8563-8585

  Hong, Sang Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Hyun Ok ^c   Wdowinski, Shimon ^b   Feliciano, Emanuelle ^b  

^a Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Everglades; Polarimetric decomposition; Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR); Subtropical wetland; TerraSAR X; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; TROPICS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

EVERGLADES; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; TERRASAR-X; WETLAND VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84937845864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70708563     Document Type: Article

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