Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Classification by a Hybrid Method

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-104

  Khan, Kamran Ullah ^a   Yang, Jian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

neural network; principal component analysis (PCA); undecimated discrete wavelet transform (UDWT)

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RATE; FEATURE SET; UNDECIMATED DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM (UDWT);

DATA ACQUISITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 34447558505     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(07)70015-9     Document Type: Article

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