A morphological approach to automatic mine detection problems

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1085-1096

  Banerji, Ashish ^b,c   Goutsias, John ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ORDNANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTOMATIC MINE DETECTORS; MAXIMUM NOISE FRACTION (MNF) TRANSFORM;

MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

EID: 0032182729     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.722683     Document Type: Article

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