A New Polarimetric Classification Approach Evaluated for Agricultural Crops

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Apr 2003

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Proceedings of the Workshop on POLinSAR - Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry (ESA SP-529). 14-16 Ja

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Statistical properties of the polarimetric backscatter behaviour for a single homogeneous area are described by the Wishart distribution or its marginal distributions. These distributions do not necessarily well describe the statistics for a collection of homogeneous areas of the same class because of variation in, for example, biophysical parameters. Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) tests of fit it is shown that, for example, the Beta distribution is a better descriptor for the coherence magnitude, and the log-normal distribution for the backscatter level. An evaluation is given for a number of agricultural crop classes, grasslands and fruit tree plantations at the Flevoland test site, using an AirSAR (C-, L- and P- band polarimetric) image of 3 July 1991. A new reversible transform of the covariance matrix into backscatter intensities will be introduced in order to describe the full polarimetric target properties in a mathematically alternative way, allowing for the development of simple, versatile and robust classifiers. Moreover, it allows for polarimetric image segmentation using conventional approaches. The effect of azimuthally asymmetric backscatter behaviour on the classification results is discussed. Several models are proposed and results are compared with results from literature for the same test site. It can be concluded that the introduced classifiers perform very well, with levels of accuracy for this test site of 90.4% for C-band, 88.7% for L- band and 96.3% for the combination of C- and L-band.

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