Classification of coastal wetlands in eastern China using polarimetric SAR data

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 10203-10211

  Chen, Yuanyuan ^a   He, Xiufeng ^a   Wang, Jing ^b  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Land Surveying and Planning Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C means (FCM); Polarimetric decomposition; Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR); Wetland classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COASTAL WETLAND; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LAND COVER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; JIANGSU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84949094357     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-015-1940-2     Document Type: Article

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