Exploiting spatial correlation features for SAR image analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1212-1223

  Vaccaro, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BHATTACHARYYA DISTRIBUTION DISTANCE; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL CORRELATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033723420     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.843013     Document Type: Article

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