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Polarimetric Incoherent Target Decomposition by Means of Independent Component Analysis

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This paper presents an alternative approach for polarimetric incoherent target decomposition dedicated to the analysis of very-high resolution POLSAR images. Given the non-Gaussian nature of the heterogeneous POLSAR clutter due to the increase of spatial resolution, the conventional methods based on the eigenvector target decomposition can ensure uncorrelation of the derived backscattering components at most. By introducing the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) in lieu of the eigenvector decomposition, our method is rather deriving statistically independent components. The adopted algorithm - FastICA, uses the non-Gaussianity of the components as the criterion for their independence. Considering the eigenvector decomposition as being analogues to the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we propose the generalization of the ICTD methods to the level of the Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques (comprising both PCA and ICA). The proposed method preserves the invariance properties of the conventional ones, appearing to be robust both with respect to the rotation around the line of sight and to the change of the polarization basis. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated comparatively, using POLSAR Ramses X-band and ALOS L-band data sets. The main differences with respect to the conventional methods are mostly found in the behaviour of the second most dominant component, which is not necessarily orthogonal to the first one. The potential of retrieving non-orthogonal mechanisms is moreover demonstrated using synthetic data. On expense of a negligible entropy increase, the proposed method is capable of retrieving the edge diffraction of an elementary trihedral by recognizing dipole as the second component.
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hal-01023169 , version 1 (15-07-2014)

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Nikola Besic, Gabriel Vasile, Jocelyn Chanussot, Srdjan Stankovic. Polarimetric Incoherent Target Decomposition by Means of Independent Component Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2015, 53 (3), pp.1236-1247. ⟨10.1109/TGRS.2014.2336381⟩. ⟨hal-01023169⟩
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