Contribution of information geometry for polarimetric SAR classification in heterogeneous areas

We discuss in the paper the use of the Riemannian mean given by the differential geometric tools. This geometric mean is used in this paper for computing the centers of class in the polarimetric H/α unsupervised classification process. We can show that the centers of class will remain more stable during the iteration process, leading to a different interpretation of the H/α/A classification. This technique can be applied both on classical SCM and on Fixed Point covariance matrices. Used jointly with the Fixed Point CM estimate, this technique can give nice results when dealing with high resolution and highly textured polarimetric SAR images classification.