Classification of the vegetated terrain using polarimetric SAR processing techniques

  • Park Sang-Eun (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences (SEES), Seoul National University) ;
  • Moon Wooil M (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences (SEES), Seoul National University, Geophysics, University of Manitoba)
  • Published : 2004.10.01

Abstract

Classification of Earth natural components within a full polarimetric SAR image is one of the most important applications of radar polarimetry in remote sensing. In this paper, the unsupervised classification algorithms based on the combined use of the polarimetric processing technique such as the target decomposition and statistical complex Wishart classification method are evaluated and applied to vegetated terrain in Jeju volcanic island.

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