Recognition of roads and bridges in SAR images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 953-962

  Wang, Ying ^a,b,c,d   Zheng, Qinfen ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Hough transformation; Morphologic filtering and segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BRIDGES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADAR IMAGING; ROADS AND STREETS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BRIDGE; ROAD; SAR IMAGE;

EID: 0032123378     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00098-8     Document Type: Article

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