A hierarchical stepwise optimization process is developed for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar image segmentation. We show that image segmentation can be viewed as a likelihood approximation problem. The likelihood segment merging criteria are derived using the multivariate complex Gaussian, the Wishart distribution, and the K-distribution. In the presence of spatial texture, the Gaussian-Wishart segmentation is not appropriate. The K-distribution segmentation is more effective in textured forested areas. The validity of the product model is also assessed, and a field-adaptable segmentation strategy combining different criteria is examined.
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Beaulieu, J. M., & Touzi, R. (2004). Segmentation of textured polarimetric SAR scenes by likelihood approximation. In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Vol. 42, pp. 2063–2072). https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2004.835302
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