A novel feature-level fusion framework using optical and SAR remote sensing images for land use/land cover (LULC) classification in cloudy mountainous area

Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2020, Pages

  Zhang, Rui ^a,b   Tang, Xinming ^b   You, Shucheng ^b   Duan, Kaifeng ^c   Xiang, Haiyan ^b   Luo, Hongxia ^d  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature fusion; Land use land cover (LULC); Mountain area; Optical remote sensing images; SAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 85084632849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/APP10082928     Document Type: Article

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