Support vector machine for multifrequency SAR polarimetric data classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4143-4152

  Lardeux, Cédric ^a,b   Frison, Pierre Louis ^a   Tison, Céline ^c   Souyris, Jean Claude ^c   Stoll, Benoît ^d   Fruneau, Bénédicte ^a   Rudant, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d Laboratoire des Geosciences du Pacifique Sud   (France)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; Supervised classification; Support vector machine (SVM); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Tropical vegetation

Indexed keywords

GREEDY FORWARD; MULTI-FREQUENCY BANDS; MULTIFREQUENCY SAR; POLARIMETRIC DATA; RADAR DATA; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM; SVM ALGORITHM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS; TROPICAL VEGETATION; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

ELLIPSOMETRY; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAPS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TROPICS; VECTORS; VEGETATION;

POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHM; CARTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 70549111594     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2023908     Document Type: Article

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