A GUI for automated detection of surface mines using iterated hybrid morphological filters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 334-345

  Batman, Sinan ^a   Goutsias, John ^a   Palki, Manoj B ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Mine Detection; Mathematical Morphology; Maximum Noise Fraction Transform; Multispectral Image Processing and Analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

AUTOMATIC MINE DETECTION;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 0035758915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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