Fractional Brownian Motion Models for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Scene Segmentation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 1511-1522

  Stewart, Clayton V ^a   Moghaddam, Baback ^a   Hintz, Kenneth J ^a   Novak, Leslie M ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FRACTALS; MAPPING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SCENE SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION MAPS; TEXTURE METRICS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0027681362     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.241511     Document Type: Article

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