Title :
Segmentation of polarimetric SAR images
Author :
Lee, J.S. ; Grunes, M.R. ; Pottier, E. ; Ferro-Famil, L.
Author_Institution :
Remote Sensing Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we proposed a new polarimetric SAR segmentation scheme based on the effect of speckle filtering for initial segmentation. We also incorporate a technique to preserve the scattering mechanism for pixels in each class
Keywords :
geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image segmentation; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; speckle; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; SAR; geophysical measurement technique; initial segmentation; land surface; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; scattering mechanism; speckle filtering; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Displays; Electronic mail; Filtering; Histograms; Image segmentation; Laboratories; Radar polarimetry; Remote sensing; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976175
