National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61101213, 61040043);Doctoral Innovation Fund of National University of Defense Technology;Graduate Innovation Fund of Hunan Province
The paper proposes a group of new distributions for interferometric magnitude and their corresponding parameter estimators.Firstly
under the frame of multiplicative model
based on the complex Wishart distribution
and bringing in the theory of clutter classification brought forward by Frery et al.
the new interferometric magnitudes statistical models are deduced according to utilizing the reciprocal of a square root of Gamma and the square root of generalized inverse Gaussian law.The group of new models can precisely model the interferometric magnitude corresponding to different clutter areas with broad degrees of homogeneity
and they achieve the unification of the statistical distributions for single-channel SAR images and multi-channel SAR interferometric magnitude.Secondly
The new models' estimators are acquired based on the Mellin transform which can estimate the contained parameters quickly and accurately
guaranteeing the new distributions' fitting precision.According to the experiments performed on the real spaceborne SAR image
using the Kullback-Leibler (KL) distance
mean square error (MSE) and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test as similarity measurements
the experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed models and estimators.