Potential of combining optical and dual polarimetric SAR data for improving mangrove species discrimination Using Rotation Forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Zhang, Hongsheng ^a   Wang, Ting ^a   Liu, Mingfeng ^a   Jia, Mingming ^b   Lin, Hui ^a,c   Chu, L M ^a   Devlin, Adam Thomas ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hong Kong wetlands; Mangrove species; Radarsat 2; Rotation forest; Worldview 3

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; REFORESTATION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HONG-KONG; MANGROVE SPECIES; RADARSAT-2; ROTATION FORESTS; WORLDVIEW-3;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85044198388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10030467     Document Type: Article

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