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In terms of image and physical domain for higher spatial resolution single-polarized and coarser spatial resolution quad-pol SAR data, this paper analyzes and compares the feature extraction with unsupervised classification methods. We discover the correlation and complementarity between high-resolution image feature and quad-pol physical scattering information. Therefore, we propose an information fusion strategy, that can conduct unsupervised learning of the landcover classes of SAR images obtained from multiple imaging modes. The medium-resolution polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data and the high-resolution single-polarized data of the Gaofen-3 satellite are adopted for the selected experiments. First, we conduct the Freeman\u2013Durden decomposition and H\/alpha-Wishart classification method on PolSAR data for feature extraction and classification, and use the Deep Convolutional Embedding Clustering (DCEC) algorithm on single-polarized data for unsupervised classification. Then, combined with the quantitative evaluation by confusion matrix and mutual information, we analyze the correlation between characteristics of image domain and physics domain and discuss their respective advantages. Finally, based on the analysis, we propose a refined unsupervised classification method combining image information of high-resolution data and physics information of PolSAR data, that optimizes the classification results of both the urban buildings and the vegetation areas. 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