Localized Radon Transform-Based Detection of Ship Wakes in SAR Images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 35-45

  Copeland, Anthony C ^a   Ravichandran, Gopalan ^a   Trivedi, Mohan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SHIPS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SURFACE WAVES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAKES; ABILITY TESTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

FEATURE SPACE LINE DETECTOR; LOCALIZED RADON TRANSFORM BASED DETECTION; SHIP WAKES; SUBSURFACE WAVES; WEIBULL MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE;

RADAR IMAGING;

FALSE ALARMS; FEATURE SPACE; KEY ELEMENTS; LINEAR FEATURE; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; RADON TRANSFORM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

EID: 0029207663     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.368224     Document Type: Article

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