Radar time series for land cover and forest mapping

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue , 2015, Pages 323-356

  Schmullius, Christiane ^a   Thiel, Christian ^a   Pathe, Carsten ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84980010210     PISSN: 15673200     EISSN: 22151842     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15967-6_16     Document Type: Chapter

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