Integrating color features in polarimetric SAR image classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2197-2206

  Uhlmann, Stefan ^a   Kiranyaz, Serkan ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Classification; Color features; Evaluation; Feature extraction; Polarimetric radar; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE CODING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COLOR FEATURES; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EVALUATION; LAND-USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATIONS; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

COLOR; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84892407002     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2258675     Document Type: Article

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