Study of mangrove communities in Marine National Park and Sanctuary, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, by fusing RISAT-1 SAR and Resourcesat-2 LISS-IV images

International Journal of Image and Data Fusion

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 73-91

  Kumar, Mohit ^a,b,c,d   Chauhan, H B ^b   Rajawat, A S ^b   Ajai, ^b  

^a NIRMA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

^c Integrated Research and Action for Development IRADe   (India)

^d Space Applications Centre ^*  (India)

Author keywords

class separability analysis; community zonation; image fusion; Mangroves; Marine National Park Sanctuary

Indexed keywords

GREEN COMPUTING; IMAGE FUSION; MARINE RADAR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CLASS SEPARABILITY; COMMUNITY ZONATION; INTENSITY HUE SATURATIONS; MANGROVES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM; NATIONAL PARKS; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LISS; MANGROVE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NDVI; RESOURCESAT; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GUJARAT; INDIA; JAMNAGAR;

EID: 84988566240     PISSN: 19479832     EISSN: 19479824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2016.1232755     Document Type: Article

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