Land cover discrimination potential of radar multitemporal series and optical multispectral images in a Mediterranean cultural landscape

References

• Blanc P 1999 Développement de méthodes pour la détection de changement PhD Thesis. Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France, 204 pp
   Google Scholar
• Blanc P Wald L 1998 Validation protocol applied to an automatic co-registration method based on multiresolution analysis and local deformation models Proceedings of the ISPRS Commission II Symposium. ‘Data Integration: Systems and Techniques’, 13–17 July 1998 (Cambridge: ISPRS), Vol. XXXII, no. 2, pp. 11–19
   Google Scholar
• Bruniquel J Péraudeau S Rognant L Sassier H Goze S Chust G Ducrot D Fellah K Laur H 1999 Assessment of multi-temporal products for multi-thematic applications with ERS SAR data Proceedings of the Workshop Committee on Earth Observation Satellites SAR, ESA-CNES, Toulouse, France, 26–29 October 1999 (Toulouse, France: ESA-CNES), pp. 455–460
   Google Scholar
• Colby , J . 1991 . Topographic normalization in rugged terrain . Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing , 57 : 531 – 537 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Congalton , R. G . 1991 . A review of assessing the accuracy of classification of remotely sensed data . Remote Sensing of Environment , 37 : 35 – 46 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• DeFries , R. S and Belward , A. S . 2000 . Global and regional cover characterization from satellite data: an introduction to the Special Issue . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 21 : 1083 – 1092 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dempster , A. P . 1967 . Upper and lower probabilities induced by a multi-value mapping . Annals of Mathematical Statistics , 38 : 325 – 339 .
   Google Scholar
• Dempster , A. P . 1968 . A generalisation of bayesian inference . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B , 30 : 205 – 247 .
   Google Scholar
• Ducrot D Sassier H Mombo J Goze S Planes J. G 1998 Contextual methods for multi-source land cover classification with application to RADARSAT and SPOT data Proceedings of the European Symposium on Remote Sensing, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing, Barcelona, Spain, 21–25 September 1998. Vol. SPIE 3500 (Barcelona, Spain: SPIE), pp. 225–236
   Google Scholar
• FjØrtoft R 1999 Segmentation d'images radar par détection de contours. PhD thesis, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France
   Google Scholar
• FjØrtoft R Sery F Ducrot D Lopès A Lemaréchal C Fortier C Marthon P Cubero-Castan E 1997 Segmentation, filtering and classification of SAR images Proceedings of VII Latin American Symposium on Remote sensing (SELPER'97), Venezuela, November 1997
   Google Scholar
• Foody , G. M . 2002 . Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment . Remote Sensing of Environment , 80 : 185 – 201 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fukunaga K 1972 Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition. Electrical Sciences Series (London: Academic Press)
   Google Scholar
• Kuplich , T. M , Freitas , C. C and Soares , J. V . 2000 . The study of ERS-1 SAR and Landsat TM synergism for land use classification . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 21 : 2101 – 2111 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Le Hégarat-Mascle , S , Bloch , I and Vidal-Madjar , D . 1997 . Application of Dempster–Shafer evidence theory to unsupervised classification in multisource remote sensing . IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 35 : 1018 – 1031 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Le Hégarat-Mascle , S , Quesney , A , Vidal-Madjar , D and Taconet , O . 2000 . Land cover discrimination from multitemporal ERS images and multispectral Landsat images: a study case in an agricultural area in France . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 21 : 435 – 456 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lin , Q and Allebach , J. P . 1990 . Combating speckle in SAR images: vector filtering and sequential classification based on multiplicative noise model . IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 28 : 647 – 653 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lopès , A , Nezry , E , Touzi , R and Laur , H . 1993 . Structure detection and statistical adaptive speckle filtering in SAR images . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 14 : 1735 – 1758 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Médail , F and Quézel , P . 1997 . Hot-spot analysis for conservation of plant biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin . Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden , 84 : 112 – 127 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Michelson , D. B , Liljeberg , B. M and Pilesjö , P . 2000 . Comparison of algorithms for classifying Swedish landcover using Landsat TM and ERS-1 SAR data . Remote Sensing of Environment , 71 : 1 – 15 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Myers , N , Mittermeier , R. A , Mittermeier , C. G , da Fonseca , G. A. B and Kent , J . 2000 . Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities . Nature , 403 : 853 – 858 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pons , X and Solé-Sugran˜es , L . 1994 . A simple radiometric correction model to improve automatic mapping of vegetation from multispectral satellite data . Remote Sensing of Environment , 48 : 191 – 204 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shafer G 1976 A Mathematical Theory of Evidence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)
   Google Scholar
• Shoshany , M . 2000 . Satellite remote sensing of natural Mediterranean vegetation: a review within an ecological context . Progress in Physical Geography , 24 : 153 – 178 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smara , Y , Belhadj-Aissa , A , Sansal , B , Lichtenegger , J and Bouzenoune , A . 1998 . Multisource ERS-1 and optical data for vegetal cover assessment and monitoring in a semi-arid region of Algeria . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 19 : 3551 – 3568 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stehman , S. V . 1997 . Selecting and interpreting measures of thematic classification accuracy . Remote Sensing of Environment , 62 : 77 – 89 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Trichon , V , Ducrot , D and Gastellu-Etchegorry , J. P . 1999 . SPOT4 potential for the monitoring of tropical vegetation. A case study in Sumatra . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 20 : 2761 – 2785 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tucker , C. J , Gaitlin , J. A and Schneider , S. R . 2000 . Monitoring vegetation in the Nile Delta with NOAA-6 and NOAA-7 AVHRR imagery . Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing , 50 : 53 – 61 .
   Google Scholar
• Vin˜as , O and Baulies , X . 1995 . 1 : 25 000 land-use map of Catalonia (32 000 km2) using multitemporal Landsat-TM data . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 16 : 129 – 146 .
   Google Scholar