Weighted Features Based Classification of Polarimetric SAR Images

Today, classification of polarimetric images is an important topic where various statistical pattern recognition methods have been used to achieve the high accurate classification maps. In this work, weighting the polarimetric features according to their statistical behavior (the mean vector and variance values as the first and second statistics) is suggested to improve the PolSAR image classification. A weighted feature matrix is composed and applied to the popular classifiers such as maximum likelihood, K-nearest neighbor and support vector machine. The weighted feature matrix can be also implemented on other arbitrary classifiers to improve their discrimination ability. The experiments on the L-band AIRSAR dataset show appropriate classification results.