Texture classification of PolSAR data based on sparse coding of wavelet polarization textons

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4576-4590

  He, Chu ^a   Li, Shuang ^a   Liao, Zixian ^a   Liao, Mingsheng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Classification; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); sparse coding of wavelet polarization texton (ScWPT); support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET FRAME; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZATION VARIANCE; SPARSE CODING; STATISTICAL HISTOGRAMS; TEXTON DICTIONARIES; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GRAPHIC METHODS; POLARIMETERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881042152     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2236338     Document Type: Article

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