SAR Images statistical modeling and classification based on the mixture of Alpha-stable distributions

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2145-2163

  Peng, Yijin ^a   Chen, Jiayu ^a   Xu, Xin ^a   Pu, Fangling ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Classification; Mixture of Alpha stable distributions; Parameter estimation; Statistical modeling; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTION; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOVIAN CLASSIFICATIONS; MULTI-MODAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; UNIMODAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ESTIMATION; MIXTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880391889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052145     Document Type: Article

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