The Jeffries–Matusita distance for the case of complex Wishart distribution as a separability criterion for fully polarimetric SAR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6859-6873

  Dabboor, M ^a   Howell, S ^a   Shokr, M ^a   Yackel, J ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SEA ICE;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COMPLEX WISHART DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL OBSERVATION; SEPARABILITY BETWEEN CLASS; SEPARABILITY CRITERION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR POLARIMETRIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; OPEN WATER; RADARSAT; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84908074422     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.960614     Document Type: Article

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