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This paper proposes a polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data classification method which applies multi-dimensional transform to identify density peaks and valleys for polarimetric signatures clustering. The new approach firstly introduces an improved maximum homogeneous region filter which can effectively preserve structure feature and polarimetric signatures. Then polarimetric signatures are extracted based on Freeman-Durden three-component composition. Finally, we obtain the classification results by multi-dimensional watershed clustering on the extracted polarimetric signatures. The effectiveness of this classification scheme is demonstrated using the full polarimetric L-band SAR imagery.
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Yang, W., Wang, H., Cao, Y., Zhang, H. (2006). Classification of Polarimetric SAR Data Based on Multidimensional Watershed Clustering. In: Li, X., Zaïane, O.R., Li, Z. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4093. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11811305_17
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