Unsupervised classification of polarimetric SAR images by EM algorithm

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E90-B, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3632-3642

  Khan, Kamran Uuah ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Weijie ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering; Expectation maximization (EM); Probability distribution function; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; POLARIMETERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLUSTERING; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 63249104262     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.12.3632     Document Type: Article

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