Classification of segments in PolSAR imagery by minimum stochastic distances between wishart distributions

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1263-1273

  Silva, Wagner B ^a   Freitas, Corina C ^b   Sant'Anna, Sidnei J S ^b   Frery, Alejandro C ^c  

^a MILITARY INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hypothesis tests; polarimetry; region based classification; stochastic distances; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; REGION-BASED; STOCHASTIC DISTANCES; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLARIMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEGMENTATION; STOCHASTICITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880311144     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2248132     Document Type: Article

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