Dual-season and full-polarimetric C band SAR assessment for vegetation mapping in the Amazon várzea wetlands

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 174, Issue , 2016, Pages 212-222

  Furtado, Luiz Felipe de Almeida ^a   Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire ^b   Novo, Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mapping accuracy; Multitemporal; Polarimetric decomposition; PolSAR; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DECISION TREES; FLOODS; FORESTRY; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; KAPPA INDEX OF AGREEMENTS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING ACCURACY; MULTI-TEMPORAL; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLSAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FLOODPLAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND;

AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL; CHUGOKU; CURUAI LAKE; HONSHU; JAPAN; PARA [BRAZIL]; YAMAGUCHI [CHUGOKU];

EID: 84951070481     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.013     Document Type: Article

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