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Textural-Fractal Analysis of Polarimetric Images Generated by Synthetic Aperture Radar

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All currently known methods and ways for the formation of the fractal features of polarimetric radar images have been given. A new textural-fractal feature has been briefly considered: a directional multifractal signature measured morphologically by an iterative coverage method. In relation to the analysis of polarimetric images generated by a synthetic aperture radar, a new concept of their processing based on the possibility of considering the polarization differences of terrestrial spatially distributed objects by identifying the multifractal and anisotropic properties of their texture has been proposed. The variant of interpretation of the results for automation of further successful solution of specific problems of segmentation (classification) of the underlying surface and detection and recognition of ground objects has been shown.

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Potapov, A.A., Kuznetsov, V.A. Textural-Fractal Analysis of Polarimetric Images Generated by Synthetic Aperture Radar. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 68, 1127–1139 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226923100145

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