Accurate and efficient determination of the shoreline in ERS-1 SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1243-1253

  Mason, David C ^a,b   Davenport, Lan J ^a,b  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATIC DELINEATION PROCESS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GREY VALUE THRESHOLDING; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030243340     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536540     Document Type: Article

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