Application of polarization signature to land cover scattering mechanism analysis and classification using multi-temporal C-band polarimetric RADARSAT-2 imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 193, Issue , 2017, Pages 11-28

  Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Wang, Jinfei ^a   Shang, Jiali ^b   Liao, Chunhua ^a   Liu, Jiangui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Land cover classification; Polarimetric SAR; Polarization signature; RADARSAT 2; Scattering mechanism analysis

Indexed keywords

BINS; CROPS; DECISION TREES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIZATION SIGNATURES; RADARSAT-2; SCATTERING MECHANISMS;

BINARY TREES;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; GROWING SEASON; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MODEL VALIDATION; ORIENTATION; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85014298878     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.014     Document Type: Article

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