Composite Kernel Method for PolSAR Image Classification Based on Polarimetric-Spatial Information

The composite kernel feature fusion proposed in this paper attempts to solve the problem of classifying polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images. Here, PolSAR images take into account both polarimetric and spatial information. Various polarimetric signatures are collected to form the polarimetric feature space, and the morphological profile (MP) is used for capturing spatial information and constructing the spatial feature space. The main idea is that the composite kernel method encodes diverse information within a new kernel matrix and tunes the contribution of different types of features. A support vector machine (SVM) is used as the classifier for PolSAR images. The proposed approach is tested on a Flevoland PolSAR data set and a San Francisco Bay data set, which are in fine quad-pol mode. For the Flevoland PolSAR data set, the overall accuracy and kappa coefficient of the proposed method, compared with the traditional method, increased from 95.7% to 96.1% and from 0.920 to 0.942, respectively. For the San Francisco Bay data set, the overall accuracy and kappa coefficient of the proposed method increased from 92.6% to 94.4% and from 0.879 to 0.909, respectively. Experimental results verify the benefits of using both polarimetric and spatial information via composite kernel feature fusion for the classification of PolSAR images.

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