Gini index-based land-cover classification using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
Classification of the Earth's surface types is one of the important remote-sensing applications of radar polarimetry. An unsupervised classification scheme based on the use of entropy and alpha angle is widely used for land-cover classification using multi-polarization radar images. The polarimetric entropy and the alpha angle are used to characterize a target's randomness and scattering mechanism, respectively. Here, we replace the entropy by the Gini index. Evaluation of the Gini index is computationally efficient.