Comparing Samples from the $mathcal{G}^0$ Distribution using a Geodesic Distance

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The $\mathcal{G}^0$ distribution is widely used for monopolarized SAR image modeling because it can characterize regions with different degree of texture accurately. It is indexed by three parameters: the number of looks (which can be estimated for the whole image), a scale parameter and a texture parameter. This paper presents a new proposal for comparing samples from the $\mathcal{G}^0$ distribution using a Geodesic Distance (GD) as a measure of dissimilarity between models. The objective is quantifying the difference between pairs of samples from SAR data using both local parameters (scale and texture) of the $\mathcal{G}^0$ distribution. We propose three tests based on the GD which combine the tests presented in~\cite{GeodesicDistanceGI0JSTARS}, and we estimate their probability distributions using permutation methods.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10499

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http://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.10499