Shape classification of altimetric signals using anomaly detection and bayes decision rule

This paper addresses the problem of classifying altimetric signals according to their shapes. The proposed classifier is divided into three steps. A one-class support vector machine method is first used to isolate the large amount of Brown-like echoes from others signals which are considered as outliers. The second step extracts pertinent features from the the remaining echoes (which cannot be well described by the Brown model). These features are projected onto discriminant axes using linear discriminant analysis. The final step classifies the projected feature vectors using a standard Bayesian classifier. The proposed three step classification strategy is evaluated on supervised real altimetric echoes.