A three-component method for timely detection of land cover changes using polarimetric SAR images

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-21

  Qi, Zhixin ^a,b   Yeh, Anthony Gar On ^b   Li, Xia ^a   Zhang, Xiaohu ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Change detection algorithms; Land cover; Object oriented methods; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; RADARSAT 2

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ERRORS; OBJECT DETECTION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CHANGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; LAND COVER; OBJECT ORIENTED METHOD; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADARSAT-2;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; DEVELOPING WORLD; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MODEL VALIDATION; RADARSAT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84938747599     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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