A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use mapping and monitoring

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Joshi, Neha ^a   Baumann, Matthias ^b   Ehammer, Andrea ^a   Fensholt, Rasmus ^a   Grogan, Kenneth ^a   Hostert, Patrick ^b   Jepsen, Martin Rudbeck ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b   Meyfroidt, Patrick ^c,d   Mitchard, Edward T A ^e   Reiche, Johannes ^f   Ryan, Casey M ^e   Waske, Björn ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Decision tree; ERS 1 and 2; Land cover; Landsat; Machine learning; Meta analysis; Optical; Pixel and segment level analyses; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957866028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010070     Document Type: Review

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