Monitoring soil salinization in Keriya River Basin, Northwestern China using passive reflective and active microwave remote sensing data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8803-8829

  Nurmemet, Ilyas ^a,b   Ghulam, Abduwasit ^a,c   Tiyip, Tashpolat ^a   Elkadiri, Racha ^b   Ding, Jian Li ^a   Maimaitiyiming, Matthew ^c   Abliz, Abdulla ^a,d   Sawut, Mamat ^a   Zhang, Fei ^a   Abliz, Abdugheni ^a   Sun, Qian ^a  

^a XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Image fusion; Keriya River basin; Soil salinization; SVM classification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; ARID REGIONS; BACKSCATTERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA INTEGRATION; DECISION TREES; IMAGE FUSION; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SOILS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATERSHEDS;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BASINS; SOIL SALINIZATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SVM CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84937944001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70708803     Document Type: Article

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