The use of fully polarimetric information for the fuzzy neural classification of SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 9 PART I, 2003, Pages 2089-2100

  Chen, Chia Tang ^a   Chen, Kun Shan ^b   Lee, Jong Sen ^c  

^a HSING WU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; Neural classification; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; Speckle filtering

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIMETERS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VECTORS;

FUZZY NEURAL CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION; SPECKLE FILTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0141905879     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813494     Document Type: Article

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