Land cover classification for polarimetric SAR images based on mixture models

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3770-3790

  Gao, Wei ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Ma, Wenting ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Land cover classification; Mixture model; Polarimetric SAR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MIXTURES; POLARIMETERS; SENSORS;

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MIXTURE MODEL; POLARIMETRIC SAR; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84901493267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6053770     Document Type: Article

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