Agricultural land classification based on statistical analysis of full Polarimetric SAR data

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 1W3, 2013, Pages 257-261

  Mahdian, M ^a   Homayouni, S ^b   Fazel, M A ^a   Mohammadimanesh, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization (EM); Markov random field (MRF); Mellin transform; Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MELLIN TRANSFORM; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84924334832     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-1-w3-257-2013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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