Fusion of sentinel-1a and sentinel-2A data for land cover mapping: A case study in the lower Magdalena region, Colombia

Journal of Maps

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 718-726

  Clerici, Nicola ^a   Valbuena Calderón, Cesar Augusto ^a,b   Posada, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Data fusion; Land cover mapping; Segmentation; Sentinel 1; Sentinel 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038228468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17445647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2017.1372316     Document Type: Article

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