Enhanced decision tree ensembles for land-cover mapping from fully polarimetric sar data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 7138-7160

  Khosravi, Iman ^a   Safari, Abdolreza ^a   Homayouni, Saeid ^b   McNairn, Heather ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EFFICIENCY; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR; IMBALANCED DATA PROBLEMS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; OBJECT CHARACTERIZATION; POLARIMETRIC FEATURES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 85040104448     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1372863     Document Type: Article

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