The invention relates to a
moraine coverage type glacier recognition method combining polarization
decomposition and topographic features. Firstly, a coherence matrix T is calculated according to a
radar scattering matrix S; polarization
decomposition characteristics, local incident angles and included angles
delta between
radar beams and the slope direction are obtained through polarization
decomposition and
geocoding, principal components of the multiple polarization decomposition characteristics are analyzed and then combined with the local incident angles to form an image to be classified,and vector files of a small (S) area, a medium (M) area and a large (L) area are obtained through segmentation of
delta by taking 60 degrees as a unit. Secondly, the
optical image is segmented to obtain a ground class
sample vector, and the to-be-classified image is
cut to calculate a sample value; and finally, an SVM classification
algorithm is executed on the to-be-classified images, and the
moraine coverage type glacier is identified. Compared with a traditional method, polarization decomposition characteristics used in the method are closely related to physical attributes of the
glacier surface, classification is executed in a partitioned mode, mistaken classification caused by terrains can be effectively weakened, glacier area classification is further refined, and the recognition precision is further improved.