
List of Figures
1.1 ASTER color c omposite image over J¨ulich, Germany. . . . . . . 2
1.2 A spatial subs et of the HH polarization band of a TerraSAR-X
image acquired over the Rhine river, Germany. . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 A vector with two components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.4 Illustrating the inner product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5 A function of one variable with a minimum at x
∗
. . . . . . . . . 24
1.6 First principal component of the VNIR spe ctral bands for the
J¨ulich scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.1 Histogram of sums of 12 uniformly distributed random num-
bers. . . . .