Unsupervised classification using polarimetric decomposition and the complex wishart classifier

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 pt 1, 1999, Pages 2249-2258

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a   Grünes, Mitchell R ^a   Ainsworth, Thomas L ^a   Du, Li Jen ^a   Schuler, Dale L ^a   Cloude, Shane R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLOUDE AND POTTIER METHOD; COMPLEX WISHART CLASSIFIER; RADAR POLARIMETRY; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0033189739     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789621     Document Type: Article

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