Internal wave detection and location in sar images using wavelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1494-1507

  Rödenas, Josep A ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Coastline detection; Ers 1 and radarsat sar ocean images; Internal wave look alikes; Internal waves; Multiscale methods; Soliton model; Speckle noise; Wavelet maxima

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SOLITONS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER WAVES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTOUR TRACING ALGORITHM; INTERNAL WAVE PACKETS; MULTISCALE GRADIENT DETECTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032163336     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718853     Document Type: Article

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