Polarimetric SAR image classification using support vector machines

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E84-C, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1939-1945

  Fukuda, Seisuke ^a   Hirosawa, Haruto ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image classification; Kernel; Polarimetry; SAR; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011055052     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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