Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2007.18.12.1345

Polarimetric SAR Image Classification Based on the Degree of Polarization and Co-Polarized Phase-Difference Statistics  

Chang, Geba (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Oh, Yi-Sok (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.18, no.12, 2007 , pp. 1345-1351 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a polarimetric SAR image classification technique based on the degree of poarization(DoP) and copolarized phase-difference(CPD) statistics. At first, the formulation for the DoP and CPD is derived. Then, the classification technique is verified with the SAR full polarimetric L-band data with consideration of exceptional cases. The technique has capability of classifying SAR data into four major classes, such as bare surface, short-vegetation canopy, tall-vegetation canopy, and village.
Keywords
Degree of Polarization; Co-Polarized Phase-Difference; SAR Image Classification;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 F. T. Ulaby, K. Sarabandi, and A. Nashashibi, 'Statistical properties of the Mueller matrix of distributed targets', IEE Proceedings-F, vol. 139, no. 2, pp. 136-146, Apr. 1992
2 J. van Zyl, 'On the importance of polarization in radar scattering problems', Ph. D. dissertation, Calif. Inst. Technol., Pasadena, CA, Dec. 1985
3 G. Sinclair, 'The transmission and reception of elliptically polarized waves', Proc. IRE, pp. 148-151, 1950   DOI
4 J. S. Lee, et al., 'Scattering-model-based speckle filtering of polarimetric SAR data', IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 176- 187, Jan. 2006   DOI   ScienceOn
5 F. T. Ulaby, C. Elachi, Radar Polarimetry for Geoscience Applications, Artech House Remote Sensing Library, 1990
6 J. S. Lee, et al., 'Unsupervised classification using polarimetric decomposition and the complex wishart classifier', IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 2249-2258, Sep. 1999   DOI   ScienceOn
7 S. R. Cloude, E. Pottier, 'A review of target decomposition theorems in radar polarimetry', IEEE Trans., Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 498-518, Mar. 1996   DOI   ScienceOn
8 A. Freeman, S. L. Durden, 'A three-component scattering model for polarimetric SAR data', IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensong, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 963-973, May 1998   DOI   ScienceOn
9 S. R. Cloude, E. Pottier, 'An entropy based classification scheme for land applications of polarimetric SAR', IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 68-78, Jan. 1997   DOI   ScienceOn
10 P. Elies, B. Le Jeune, P. Olivard, J. Cariou, and J. Lotrian, 'The application of de-polarization analysis to polarimetric characterization and classification of metallic and dielectric samples', J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., pp. 2520-2529, 1997