Mapping urban impervious surface by fusing optical and SAR data at the decision level

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Shao, Zhenfeng ^a   Fu, Huyan ^a,b   Fu, Peng ^c   Yin, Li ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

^c INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision level fusion; GF 1 and Sentinel 1A data; Impervious surface; Random forest and Dempster Shafer theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FORMAL LOGIC; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; RADAR IMAGING; REFLECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION LEVEL FUSION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SENTINEL-1; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS; URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85013664056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8110945     Document Type: Article

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