Information-theoretic heterogeneity measurement for SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 619-624

  Aiazzi, Bruno ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^b   Baronti, Stefano ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information theoretic signal processing; Land cover classification; Multivariate analysis, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery; Textural features; Variation coefficient

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES;

INFORMATION THEORETIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGERY; TEXTURAL FEATURES; VARIATION COEFFICIENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 14644409724     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.837328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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