A novel contextual classification algorithm for multitemporal polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 681-685

  Niu, Xin ^a   Ban, Yifang ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contextual classification; Markov random field (MRF); Modified Pappas adaptive clustering (MPAC); Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Stochastic expectation maximization (SEM); Urban land cover

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING; CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; STOCHASTIC EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; URBAN LAND COVER;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84883156337     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2274815     Document Type: Article

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