Comparing matrix distance measures for unsupervised POLSAR data classification of sea ice based on agglomerative clustering

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1492-1505

  Dabboor, Mohammed ^a   Yackel, John ^a   Hossain, Mosharraf ^a   Braun, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; SEA ICE; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DATA CLASSIFICATION; MANHATTAN DISTANCE; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SIMILARITY CRITERIA; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CANADA; CHURCHILL; HUDSON BAY; MANITOBA;

EID: 84867593985     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.727040     Document Type: Article

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