Application of texture to JERS-1 SAR imagery for tropical forest land cover classification

Author

Podest, Erika ; Saatchi, Sasan

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1451

Abstract

Shows the potential of the Japanese Earth Remote Sensing Satellite (JERS-1) at L band and HH polarization 100-metre resolution SAR data towards identifying major land cover types of tropical rainforests. Texture statistics has been used as the feature dimensions in maximizing class discrimination. For this purpose, eight of the most common first order texture measurements found in the literature were used. Their functional analysis was based on histogram plots, scatter plots and separability tests using the Bhattachurrya distance. The results were then input into a maximum likelihood classifier and the classified image was validated as well as visually assessed. The study sites have been chosen over the Amazon Basin and the land cover classes are forest, nonforest, flooded vegetation and water

Keywords

image classification; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; Amazon Basin; Bhattachurrya distance; HH polarization; JERS-1 SAR imagery; Japanese Earth Remote Sensing Satellite; L-band SAR; flooded vegetation; land cover classes; land cover types; maximum likelihood classifier; scatter plots; separability tests; texture statistics; tropical forest land cover classification; tropical rainforests; water; Earth; Functional analysis; Histograms; Polarization; Remote sensing; Satellites; Scattering; Statistics; Testing; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774661

Filename

774661