PolSAR Image Classification Based on Relation Network with SWANet.

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely applied in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification, and satisfactory results have been obtained. However, there is one crucial issue that still has not been solved. These methods require abundant labeled samples and obtaining the labeled samples of PolSAR images is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive. To obtain better classification results with fewer labeled samples, a new attention-based 3D residual relation network (3D-ARRN) is proposed for PolSAR image. Firstly, a multilayer CNN with residual structure is used to extract depth polarimetric features. Secondly, to extract more important feature information and improve the classification results, a spatial weighted attention network (SWANet) is introduced to concentrate the feature information, which is more favorable for a classification task. Then, the features of training and test samples are integrated and CNN is utilized to compute the score of similarity between training and test samples. Finally, the similarity score is used to determine the category of test samples. Studies on four different PolSAR datasets illustrate that the proposed 3D-ARRN model can achieve higher classification results than other comparison methods with few labeled data.