SAR image understanding using contextual information

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4543, Issue , 2002, Pages 73-84

  Blacknell, David ^a   Arini, Nicholas S ^a   McConnell, Ian ^b  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b NA Software   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Context; Linear features; SAR; Segmentation; Target detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KALMAN FILTERING; PROBABILITY; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES; CONTEXTURAL INFORMATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0036395464     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453956     Document Type: Article

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