Classification with a non-Gaussian model for PoISAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2999-3009

  Doulgeris, Anthony P ^a   Anfinsen, Stian Normann ^a   Eltoft, Torbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Image classification; K distribution; Non Gaussian statistics; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Scale mixture of Gaussian (SMoG); Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLASSIFIERS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADAR; SMOKE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRELLIS CODES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; K-DISTRIBUTION; NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (POLSAR); SCALE MIXTURE OF GAUSSIAN (SMOG); WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 53849139159     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.923025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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