Mapping urban impervious surface with dual-polarimetric SAR data: An improved method

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 151, Issue , 2016, Pages 55-63

  Zhang, Hongsheng ^a   Lin, Hui ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^b   Fang, Chaoyang ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpha H decomposition; Impervious surfaces; Optical and SAR data fusion; PolSAR

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING;

DUAL-POLARIZATION SAR; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; POLARIMETRIC FEATURES; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLSAR; SINGLE POLARIZATION; URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; MAPPING METHOD; PALSAR; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SPOT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

EID: 84961990816     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.03.009     Document Type: Article

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