Unsupervised land cover classification using H|ᾱ|TP space applied to POLSAR image analysis

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E87-B, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1639-1647

  Kimura, Koji ^a   Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Yamada, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alphabar; Anisotropy; Iterative ML method; Polarimetric entropy; Total power; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALPHABAR; ITERATIVE ML METHOD; POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY; TOTAL POWER; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 3042691190     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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