• Unsupervised Estimation of the Equivalent Number of Looks in PolSAR Image with High Heterogeneity 

      Hu, Dingsheng; Qiu, Xiaolan; Anfinsen, Stian Normann; Lei, Bin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-01)
      Equivalent Number of Looks (ENL) is an important parameter in statistical modelling of multi-look Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data. In some automated applications of PolSAR images, it is necessary to estimate the ENL in an unsupervised way without any manual intervention. The existing unsupervised estimation of ENL can not obtain accurate estimates for the images with high heterogeneity. To address ...
    • An unsupervised method for equivalent number of looks estimation in complex SAR scenes 

      Hu, Dingsheng; Doulgeris, Anthony Paul; Qiu, Xiaolan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-12)
      This paper introduces a novel unsupervised estimator of equivalent number of looks (ENL) that can be applied to an arbitrary image. It avoids the assumption that homogeneous speckle will dominate the investigated image that is followed by current unsupervised ENL estimators but not always valid, especially for the complex SAR scenes with high mixture and texture. Incorporating the statistical ...