Unsupervised terrain classification preserving polarimetric scattering characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 722-731

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a   Grunes, Mitchell R ^a   Pottier, Eric ^b   Ferro Famil, Laurent ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IETR   (France)

Author keywords

Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Terrain classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ENTROPY; ITERATIVE METHODS; POLARIMETERS;

RADAR POLARIMETRY; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 2442616341     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.819883     Document Type: Article

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