Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50275#.VDNjRFfHRK0 Author(s) Lan Mi 1 , Nguyen Thanh Hoan 2 , Ryutaro Tateishi 1 , Kotaro Iizuka 1 , Bayan Alsaaideh 1 , Toshiyuki Kobayashi 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan . 2 Institute of Geography Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Hanoi, Vietnam . ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to find better classifier of mapping tropical land covers using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. The data used are Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) 50 m ortho-rectified mosaic data. Training data for forest, herbaceo...
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