A new statistical model for Markovian classification of urban areas in high-resolution SAR images

Céline Tison (1) , Jean-Marie Nicolas (1) , Florence Tupin (1) , Henri Maître (1)

1 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

A Model for SAR images on high density urban areas, based on multiplicative noise and high dynamics, is used to improve segmentation and classification of SAR Radar images with Markov Random Fields.

Keywords: Radar images; classification; pattern recognition

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Image Processing [eess.IV]

Céline Tison, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Florence Tupin, Henri Maître. A new statistical model for Markovian classification of urban areas in high-resolution SAR images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2004, 42 (10), pp.2046-2057. ⟨10.1109/TGRS.2004.834630⟩. ⟨hal-00556167⟩