New Formula of the Polarization Entropy

Jian YANG
Yilun CHEN
Yingning PENG
Yoshio YAMAGUCHI
Hiroyoshi YAMADA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.3    pp.1033-1035
Publication Date: 2006/03/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.3.1033
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Sensing
Keyword: 
polarization,  Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR),  remote sensing,  

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Summary: 
In this letter, a new formula is proposed for calculating the polarization entropy, based on the least square method. There is no need to calculate the eigenvalues of a covariance matrix as well as to use logarithms of values. So the time for computing the polarization entropy is reduced. Using polarimetric SAR data, the authors validate the effectiveness of the new formula.