Segmentation of multi-look fully polarimetric SAR images based on Wishart distribution and MRF

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2302-2306

  Wu, Yong Hui ^a   Ji, Ke Feng ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Yu, Wen Xian ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Markov random field; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PIXELS; POLARIMETERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSORS;

FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR; ITERATIVE CONDITIONAL MODES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; MULTI LOOK; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 38349055129     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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