Mapping stand age of rubber plantation using ALOS-2 polarimetric SAR data

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 64-76

  Trisasongko, Bambang H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Random forest; rubber plantation; stand age; support vector machine; tuning parameters; variable importance

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; RANDOM FORESTS; RUBBER; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; TEXTURES;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTER INTENSITY; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; STAND AGE; TUNING PARAMETER; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE; ALGORITHM; ALOS; BACKSCATTER; DECIDUOUS TREE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANTATION; SATELLITE DATA; STAND STRUCTURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 85018786544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2017.1274569     Document Type: Article

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