Scattering Feature-Driven Superpixel Segmentation for Polarimetric SAR Images

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing Vol. 14; pp. 2173 - 2183
• Main Authors: Quan, Sinong, Xiang, Deliang, Wang, Wei, Xiong, Boli, Kuang, Gangyao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptation models; Distance measurement; Image edge detection; Image processing; Image segmentation; Local clustering; Matrix decomposition; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Production methods; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; SAR (radar); Scattering; scattering feature; Shape; Similarity; superpixel representation; Synthetic aperture radar; Urban areas

Superpixel segmentation for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images plays a fundamental role in various PolSAR applications. Subject to the intrinsic limitations, the existing methods generally produce over or undersegmented superpixels in highly complex scenes of PolSAR images. In thi...