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TitleInformation assessment for polarimetric SAR intensity images
 
AuthorZakharov, I; Toutin, T
Source2009 11th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, CWIT 2009; 5069524, 2009 p. 71-74, https://doi.org/10.1109/CWIT.2009.5069524
Year2009
Alt SeriesNatural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20181839
PublisherIEEE
Documentbook
Lang.English
Mediapaper; on-line; digital
File formatpdf
Subjectsgeophysics; remote sensing
ProgramCanada Centre for Remote Sensing Divsion
Released2009 05 01
AbstractPolarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems generate data, which have different information content in each polarimetric band. In analyzing the intensity information of multi-polarimetric SAR images (without taking into account phase information) two key issues were addressed. First, the mutual information and the entropy are used to assess the information difference between the polarimetric bands. Second, the image restoration method for full polarimetric SAR images can be evaluated with the information theory and a statistical method of minimum mean squared error estimation. This method was used to find the amount of information in an image as a function of spatial frequencies. A priori information about the power spectrum of an image and a point spread function of SAR system was applied. Statistical quality measures as well as the amount of information show good performances for polarimetric image restoration.
GEOSCAN ID312194

 
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