Monthly short-term detection of land development using RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 179-196

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

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Change detection; Land development; Polarimetric SAR; RADARSAT 2; Short term

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DAMAGE DETECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHANGE DETECTION; LAND DEVELOPMENT; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RADARSAT-2; SHORT TERM;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84951910279     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.018     Document Type: Article

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