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Analysis on the relation between statistical similarity measures and agricultural parameters: A case study

  • Olga Chesnokova*
  • , Esra Erten
  • , Irena Hajnsek
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • MFB GeoConsulting
  • German Aerospace Center

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Abstract

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are widely used for agricultural fields monitoring and change detection applications due to their all-weather acquisition possibilities and inherent properties including phase and amplitude information. The techniques used for such temporal applications can be cast in two groups: polarimetric (incoherent) and polarimetric- interferometric (coherent) being represented in this work by the KL-distance and the Mutual Information, respectively. The goal of this work is to characterize these two kinds of different information sources in terms of ground measurement parameters of the agricultural fields, and to figure out the relationship between temporal trends of the similarity measures versus temporal trends of the physical parameters without dealing with inverse problems. For this purpose multi-temporal fully polarimetric SAR images, acquired in the frame of the AgriSAR 2006 campaign with synchronous ground surface measurements over a whole vegetation period are analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages6313-6316
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781467311595
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event32nd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 22 Jul 201227 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
ISSN (Print)2153-6996
ISSN (Electronic)2153-7003

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period22/07/1227/07/12

Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • L-band
  • PolSAR
  • Statistical Similarity Measures

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