The Wishart-Kotz classifier for multilook polarimetric SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3146-3149

  Kersten, Paul R ^a   Anfinsen, Stian N ^b   Doulgeris, Anthony P ^b  

^a Department of Physics and Technology ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

parameter estimation; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; probability distributions; Radar imaging; statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COVARIANCE MATRIX; FUNCTIONS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DISTRIBUTION MODELS; MULTILOOK; MULTILOOK POLARIMETRIC SAR; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLE COVARIANCE MATRIX; WISHART;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84873149298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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