Registering incomplete radar images using the EM algorithm

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 637-648

  Moss, Simon ^a   Hancock, Edwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Fragmental line segments; Incomplete radar images; Non overlapping radar sweeps

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHOD; RADAR IMAGE GUIDANCE SYSTEM; SATELLITE GLOBAL POSITIONING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031206773     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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