CFAR edge detector for polarimetric SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-32

  Schou, Jesper ^a   Skriver, Henning ^a   Nielsen, Aasbjerg ^a   Conradsen, Knut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Complex wishart distribution; Edge detection; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Wishart likelihood ratio test statistic

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; POLARIMETRIC IMAGES; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0037240337     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808063     Document Type: Article

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