Effects of Sample Size in Classifier Design
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Two-dimensional signal and image processing
Two-dimensional signal and image processing
Material Determination from Reflectance Properties in Aerial Urban Images
ICIAP '01 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
A Model for Radar Images and Its Application to Adaptive Digital Filtering of Multiplicative Noise
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Adaptive Noise Smoothing Filter for Images with Signal-Dependent Noise
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
On the mean accuracy of statistical pattern recognizers
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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In some key operational domains, the joint use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multi-spectral sensors has shown to be a powerful tool for Earth observation. In this paper, we analyze the potentialities of combining interferometric SAR and multi-spectral data for urban area characterization and monitoring. This study is carried out following a standard multi-source processing chain. First, a pre-processing stage is performed taking into account the underlying physics, geometry, and statistical models for the data from each sensor. Second, two different methodologies, one for supervised and another for unsupervised approaches, are followed to obtain features that optimize the urban related information. Finally, classification of 'Urban/Non-Urban' areas is performed using standard algorithms. Multi-temporal data acquisition was carried out in the areas of Rome and Naples (Italy) in 1995 and 1999. The data set includes images from Landsat TM and 35-day interferometric pairs of ERS2 SAR images. We analyze the dependence of the classification accuracy on the selected input features. The good results obtained using selected features improve the overall classification accuracy, thus confirming the validity of our proposal. l.