Data Fusion and Remote Sensing: An ever-growing relationship

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 6-23

  Schmitt, Michael ^a   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE FUSION; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

'CURRENT; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; FUSION RESEARCH; GENERIC DATA; HOLISTIC VIEW; REMOTE SENSING DATA FUSION; REMOTE-SENSING; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SENSORS DATA FUSION; STATE OF THE ART;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 85007413470     PISSN: 24732397     EISSN: 21686831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MGRS.2016.2561021     Document Type: Article

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