Segmentation of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 281-300

  Rignot, Eric ^a   Chellappa, Rama ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--BACKSCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

RADAR;

EID: 0026899931     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.148603     Document Type: Article

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