Review of ship detection from airborne platforms

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 379-385

  Fingas, M F ^a   Brown, C E ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

SIDE LOOKING AIRBORNE RADAR (SLAR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0035416287     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2001.10854880     Document Type: Article

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