Multi-sensor wetland mapping over the Peace Athabasca Delta

The joint use of diverse sensors is of major interest in the remote sensing community. With view to the repeatability of acquisitions, todays satellite sensor systems provide a temporal resolution of about one month in the Shannon sense. Thus, the joint use of different sensor systems is unavoidable for monitoring purposes. This contribution designs a novel similarity transformation that extracts class similarities based on local distributions from any available image independent of sensor (TerraSAR-X, RADARSAT-2, Sentinel-1) or polarimetric mode (Quad, Dual-Co, Dual-Cross, Single). The resulting class probability development characterizes the temporal change of the Peace Athabasca Delta in Northern Canada.