Polarimetric and interferometric SAR image partition into statistically homogeneous regions based on the minimization of the stochastic complexity

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3599-3609

  Morio, Jérôme ^a,b   Goudail, François ^b   Dupuis, Xavier ^a   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^a   Réfrégier, Philippe ^c  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Polarimetric interferometry; SAR interferometry; SAR polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; STOCHASTIC COMPLEXITY; TESSELLATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35648984559     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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