This paper reports the result of the study in the AOE869 test site by exploring ASAR/APP dual polarization (VV, VH) image. The result is very promising, as it could differentiate clearly two land cover types : forest timber plantation and oil palm plantation. Although they play an important role for the monitoring of deforestation, these land covers were difficult to be differentiated in high r...

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) systems are an important remote sensing tool. Such can provide high spacial resolution images, but they contaminated by interference pattern called multidimensional speckle. This fact requires that PolSAR images receive specialised treatment; particularly, tailored models which close to physical formation sought. In this paper, we propose two new m...

Aiming at overcoming the disadvantages of the algorithm proposed by White, R. G. (RGW) and making it applicable for PolSAR data classification, a novel edge-detection algorithm based on segmentation for Polarimetric SAR images is proposed in this paper. As one of the famous algorithms based on objected-oriented segmentation, RGW has been used extensively in image segmentation. However, it also ...

This paper describes a flexible non-Gaussian statistical method used to model polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR) data. We outline the theoretical basis of the well-know product model as described by the class of Scale Mixture models and discuss their appropriateness for modelling radar data. The statistical distributions of several Scale mixture models are then described, including ...

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery using Nonlocal Means and a statistical test based on stochastic divergences. The main objective is to select homogeneous pixels in the filtering area through statistical tests between distributions. This proposal uses the complex Wishart model to describe PolSAR data, but the technique...

The classification of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) image using a different decomposition technique has become a very important task after availability of data. In this paper RADARSAT-2 C-band fully polarimetric SAR data is used. This data was in SLC (single look complex) format and was not geocoded. In the present paper different decomposition techniques applied on RADARSAT-2 ...