Coherency matrix estimation of heterogeneous clutter in high-resolution polarimetric SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1809-1826

  Vasile, Gabriel ^a   Ovarlez, Jean Philippe ^b,c   Pascal, Frederic ^c   Tison, Céline ^d  

^a National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS)   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c SUPELEC   (France)

^d CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Estimation; Heterogeneous clutter; Polarimetry; Segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD; COHERENCY MATRIX; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTORS; DISTANCE MEASURE; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL; POLARIMETRIC DIVERSITY; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PRIORI INFORMATION; RANDOM VECTORS; RECEIVED POWER; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANISOTROPY; DATA SET; ENTROPY; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650862100     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2035496     Document Type: Article

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