The Hotelling-Lawley trace statistic for change detection in polarimetric SAR data under the complex Wishart distribution

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4162-4165

  Akbari, Vahid ^a   Anfinsen, Stian N ^a   Doulgeris, Anthony P ^a   Eltoft, Torbjorn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change detection; Complex Wishart distribution; Hotelling Lawley trace; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Test statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894276072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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