Impact of Using Circular Polarization Correlation Coefficient (CCC) Along with Target Decomposition to Classify Oriented Settlement

Urban area classification is one of the important applications of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POLSAR). This paper suggests an effective technique for classifying the terrain using different polarimetric decompositions and circular correlation coefficient (CCC) along with the total power. It is observed that after applying decomposition, the oriented urban area is getting classified as forest. The result of proposed technique shows that the classification accuracy increases significantly for settlement class i.e., most of the oriented settlement gets classified as settlement not as forest.