Crop discrimination based on polarimetric correlation coefficients optimization for PolSAR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 4233-4249

  Chen, Si Wei ^a   Li, Yong Zhen ^a   Wang, Xue Song ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL MONITORING; AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CROP DISCRIMINATION; OPTIMAL DISCRIMINATIONS; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; POLARIMETRIC CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; POLARIMETRIC FEATURES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

POLARIMETERS;

CORRELATION; CROP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL VALIDATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84940056464     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1079345     Document Type: Article

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