Classification of stricken residential houses by the mid niigata prefecture earthquake based on POLSAR image analysis

This report attempts to apply a hybrid classification technique based on POLSAR image analysis to detect the man- made residential houses in a local mountainous area stricken by the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake. The present hybrid scheme includes the scattered power decomposition method based on physical scattering nature and the scattering feature extraction method using polarimetric correlation coefficient. From the results of the image analysis for actual POLSAR data, it is verified that the present hybrid scheme provides us accurate classification of the man-made targets even in the severe mountainous