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Table 1 Twenty-seven feature parameters

From: PolSAR image classification based on Laplacian Eigenmaps and superpixels

Features

Expression

Span

|s hh|2 + 2|s hv|2 + |s vv|2

Amplitude of HH-VV correlation coefficient

\( \left|\frac{\left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{hh}}{s}_{\mathrm{vv}}^{\ast}\right\rangle }{\sqrt{{\left|{s}_{\mathrm{hh}}\right|}^2{\left|{s}_{\mathrm{vv}}\right|}^2}}\right| \)

Ratio of HV/VV (db)

10 log(|s hv|2/|s vv|2)

Co-polarized ratio (db)

10 log(|s vv|2/|s hh|2)

Cross-polarized ratio (db)

10 log(|s hv|2/|s hh|2)

Co-polarized HH backscattering coefficient

\( \left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{hh}}{s}_{\mathrm{hh}}^{\ast}\right\rangle \)

Co-polarized VV backscattering coefficient

\( \left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{vv}}{s}_{\mathrm{vv}}^{\ast}\right\rangle \)

Co-polarized HV backscattering coefficient

\( \left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{hv}}{s}_{\mathrm{hv}}^{\ast}\right\rangle \)

Phase of HH-VV

\( \arg \left(\left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{hh}}{s}_{\mathrm{vv}}^{\ast}\right\rangle \right) \)

Phase of HH-HV

\( \arg \left(\left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{hh}}{s}_{\mathrm{hv}}^{\ast}\right\rangle \right) \)

Phase of HV-VV

\( \arg \left(\left\langle {s}_{\mathrm{hv}}{s}_{\mathrm{vv}}^{\ast}\right\rangle \right) \)

Pauli decomposition

|a|2, |b|2, |c|2

Krogager (SDH) decomposition

k s , k d , k h

Cloud decomposition

H, ∂, A

Freeman-Durden decomposition

P s , P d , P v

Yamaguchi decomposition

f h , f s , f d , f v