Probability density components analysis : a new approach to treatment and classification of SAR images

dc.creatorCarvalho Júnior, Osmar Abílio de
dc.creatorMaciel, Luz Marilda de Moraes
dc.creatorCarvalho, Ana Paula Ferreira de
dc.creatorGuimarães, Renato Fontes
dc.creatorSilva, Cristiano Rosa
dc.creatorGomes, Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso
dc.creatorSilva, Nilton Correia
dc.date2014-09-08T12:17:43Z
dc.date2014-09-08T12:17:43Z
dc.date2014
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-07T13:04:43Z
dc.date.available2017-03-07T13:04:43Z
dc.identifierCARVALHO JÚNIOR, Osmar Abílio de et al. Probability density components analysis: a new approach to treatment and classification of SAR images. Remote Sensing, Basel, Switzerland, v. 6, n. 4, p. 2989-3019, 2014. Disponível em: <http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/4/2989>. Acesso em: 21 ago. 2014.
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/16209
dc.identifier10.3390/rs6042989
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/358797
dc.descriptionSpeckle noise (salt and pepper) is inherent to synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which causes a usual noise-like granular aspect and complicates the image classification. In SAR image analysis, the spatial information might be a particular benefit for denoising and mapping classes characterized by a statistical distribution of the pixel intensities from a complex and heterogeneous spectral response. This paper proposes the Probability Density Components Analysis (PDCA), a new alternative that combines filtering and frequency histogram to improve the classification procedure for the single-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. This method was tested on L-band SAR data from the Advanced Land Observation System (ALOS) Phased-Array Synthetic-Aperture Radar (PALSAR) sensor. The study area is localized in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, northern Rondônia State (municipality of Candeias do Jamari), containing forest and land use patterns. The proposed algorithm uses a moving window over the image, estimating the probability density curve in different image components. Therefore, a single input image generates an output with multi-components. Initially the multi-components should be treated by noise-reduction methods, such as maximum noise fraction (MNF) or noise-adjusted principal components (NAPCs). Both methods enable reducing noise as well as the ordering of multi-component data in terms of the image quality. In this paper, the NAPC applied to multi-components provided large reductions in the noise levels, and the color composites considering the first NAPC enhance the classification of different surface features. In the spectral classification, the Spectral Correlation Mapper and Minimum Distance were used. The results obtained presented as similar to the visual interpretation of optical images from TM-Landsat and Google Maps.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.rightsRemote Sensing - © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
dc.subjectFlorestas - Amazônia
dc.subjectProcessamento de imagens
dc.titleProbability density components analysis : a new approach to treatment and classification of SAR images
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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