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As we all know, PolSAR image classification is actually a dense prediction problem. Fortunately, the recently proposed fully convolutional network (FCN) model can be used to solve the dense prediction problem, which means that FCN has great potential in PolSAR image classification. However, there are some problems to be solved in PolSAR image classification by FCN. Therefore, we propose sliding window fully convolutional network and sparse coding (SFCN-SC) for PolSAR image classification. The merit of our method is twofold: (1) Compared with convolutional neural network (CNN), SFCN-SC can avoid repeated calculation and memory occupation; (2) Sparse coding is used to reduce the computation burden and memory occupation, and meanwhile the image integrity can be maintained in the maximum extent. We use three PolSAR images to test the performance of SFCN-SC. Compared with several state-of-the-art methods, SFCN-SC achieves promising results in PolSAR image classification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10121984","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,10]],"date-time":"2018-12-10T03:36:41Z","timestamp":1544413001000},"page":"1984","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":38,"title":["A Novel Deep Fully Convolutional Network for PolSAR Image Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Yangyang","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, Shaanxi, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6228-852X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanqiao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, Shaanxi, China"}]},{"given":"Guangyuan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, Shaanxi, China"}]},{"given":"Licheng","family":"Jiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, Shaanxi, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, L., Chen, Y., Lu, D., and Zou, B. 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