Evaluating SAR-optical image fusions for urban LULC classification in Vancouver Canada

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 278-290

  Werner, Adrian ^a   Storie, Christopher D ^a   Storie, Joni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE FUSION; INFRARED DEVICES; LAND USE; MAPPING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; FUSION CLASSIFICATION; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; OPTICAL CLASSIFICATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; THEMATIC CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84987973427     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2014.976700     Document Type: Review

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