A Statistical and Geometrical Edge Detector for SAR Images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 764-773

  Touzi, Ridha ^a   Lopes, Armand ^a   Bousquet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

edge detection; mathematical morphology; SAR image; speckle

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING -- IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR -- SYNTHETIC APERTURE;

IMAGE EDGE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL/GEOMETRICAL EDGE DETECTOR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0024104767     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.7708     Document Type: Article

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