On nonparametric edge detection in multilook SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1826-1829

  Beauchemin, Mario ^a   Thomson, Keith P B ^a   Edwards, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Nonparametrics; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NONPARAMETRIC CHANGE POINT TESTS; WILCOXON-MANN-WHITNEY STATISTICS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0032163688     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718650     Document Type: Article

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