A New Clustering Algorithm Applicable to Multispectral and Polarimetric SAR Images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 634-644

  Wong, Yiu Fai ^a   Posner, Edward C ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA HANDLING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; POLARIMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0027592254     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.225530     Document Type: Article

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