The invention particularly relates to a
polarimetric SAR image classification method based on a
complex valued graph U-Net. The method comprises the steps of extracting a
complex valued scattering matrix of original
polarimetric SAR data, six independent complex elements of a coherence matrix and a Pauli component, and converting the
complex valued scattering matrix, the six independent complex elements and the Pauli component into a
Lab color space; the edge weight is calculated according to fusion of the improved Wishart distance and the Lab color L1 distance; constructing a hierarchical superpixel structure HiAS and an
incidence matrix; constructing a complex value graph convolutional network CV-GCN, extracting complex value discrimination features, and dynamically optimizing an adjacent matrix in combination with an attention mechanism; according to the
incidence matrix of the HiAS and the CV-GCN, a complex value graph U-Net is constructed, and multi-scale complex value
feature fusion is realized through jump connection; and refining multi-scale complex value features by using a complex value convolutional layer, inputting a full connection layer and a Softmax layer to estimate category probabilities, and further outputting a pixel-level
classification result. According to the method, the influence of phase
information loss and multi-scale boundary inconsistency is reduced, the characteristic expression of the
polarimetric SAR data is more complete, the space consistency is stronger, and the classification precision is remarkably improved.