A new method for land cover characterization and classification of polarimetric SAR data using polarimetric signatures

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3595-3607

  Jafari, Mohsen ^a   Maghsoudi, Yasser ^a   Valadan Zoej, Mohammad Javad ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Knowledge based; land cover classification; object oriented; polarimetric signatures; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); scattering contributions

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGE MATCHING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

KNOWLEDGE BASED; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; OBJECT ORIENTED; POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ALGORITHM; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PICEA MARIANA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 85027928739     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2387374     Document Type: Article

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