Classificação textural de imagens radarsat-1 para discriminação de alvos agrícolas. / Agricultural targets discrimination by textural classification of radarsat-1 imagery.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

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Remote sensing images from the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum have demonstrated a great potential to identify and discriminate agricultural areas for crops estimation. However, cloud cover is an obstruction for this type of image acquisition. On the other hand, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images acquired in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum are independent of weather conditions. In this context, this work has the objective to verify the capability of radar images to identify soybean and sugarcane crops in the region of Assis, São Paulo State using textural classification. Images from RADARSAT-1/SAR C-HH were acquired in the following modes: Fine-5/descending (F5D) from 31 January 2003; Fine-5/ascending (F5A) from 14 February 2003; and Standard-7/descending (S7D) from 23 February 2003. Additionally, two cloud free Landsat-7 images from 23 February and 27 March 2003 were used to identify targets of interest in the study area. The methods for crops type identification were based on visual and digital classification analysis by using texture measures in the following steps: a) definition of land use classes; b) extraction of training and test samples; c) generation of texture bands; d) supervised classification; and e) classification evaluations using confusion matrix and kappa coefficient. Digital classifications using MAXVER/ICM were carried out for: original, filtered and texture images. The results indicated a good classification performance for both filtered and texture images showing that the textural measures can be a useful tool to maximize crop type discrimination.

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imagens de radar texturas assis (town) textures assis (são paulo) image classification agriculture classificação de imagem remote sensing sugar cane agricultura radarsat-1 soja landsat-7 soybeans cana-de-açúcar sensoriamento remoto radar imagery

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