Improved building extraction with integrated decomposition of time-frequency and entropy-alpha using polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4058-4068

  Deng, Lei ^a   Wang, Cuizhen ^b,c  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Building extraction; Entropy alpha Wishart classifier; POLSAR; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; NASA; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING EXTRACTION; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLSAR; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME-FREQUENCY DECOMPOSITION; TIME-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMATION;

ENTROPY;

BUILDING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84920149787     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2281594     Document Type: Article

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