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Optical-SAR data fusion

Combines optical reflectance and SAR backscatter to exploit complementary information; good for cloud-persistent monitoring, crop classification under cloud cover, and flood mapping in vegetated areas.

Feature-level or decision-level fusion; SAR provides all-weather geometric structure while optical provides spectral identity. Requires co-registration and calibration consistency across sensors. Wikipedia: Data fusion

Sources

[1]Wikipedia: Data fusioncommunity2026-05-22

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