Segmentation and classification of polarimetric SAR data based on the KummerU distribution

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 668 SP, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Harant, Olivier ^a,b   Bombrun, Lionel ^a   Gay, Michel ^a   Fallourd, Renaud ^c   Trouvé, Emmanuel ^c   Tupin, Florence ^d  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c Université de Savoie   (France)

^d INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Fisher pdf; High resolution PolSAR data; KummerU pdf; Segmentation; Texture

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SAR; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLUTTER MODELS; HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MATRIX; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SPACE-BORNE; SPATIAL FEATURES; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COVARIANCE MATRIX; ELLIPSOMETRY; INTERFEROMETERS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 76449083908     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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