Extraction of Urban Areas from Polarimetric SAR Imagery

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2583-2591

  Azmedroub, Boussad ^a   Ouarzeddine, Mounira ^a   Souissi, Boularbah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Radar polarimetry; radar target recognition; scattering; urban area detection

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; LAND USE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC TARGET DECOMPOSITION; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

ALGERIA; CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84981762932     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2527242     Document Type: Article

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