Land Cover Characterization and Classification of Arctic Tundra Environments by Means of Polarized Synthetic Aperture X- and C-Band Radar (PolSAR) and Landsat 8 Multispectral Imagery — Richards Island, Canada

In this work the potential of polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data of dual-polarized TerraSAR-X (HH/VV) and quad-polarized Radarsat-2 was examined in combination with multispectral Landsat 8 data for unsupervised and supervised classification of tundra land cover types of Richards Isl...

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Main Authors: Tobias Ullmann, Andreas Schmitt, Achim Roth, Jason Duffe, Stefan Dech, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, Roland Baumhauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-09-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
SAR
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/9/8565