Segmentation of radar imagery using the gaussian markov random field model

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1617-1639

  Dong, Y ^a,b   Forester, B C ^a   Milne, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; LINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; RADAR IMAGERY; WATERSHED PROCESS;

RADAR IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0033586928     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699212641     Document Type: Article

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