Towards an automated ocean feature detection, extraction and classification scheme for SAR imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 935-951

  Wu, S Y ^a   Liu, A K ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OCEAN FEATURE DETECTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

AUTOMATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0037430088     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160210144606     Document Type: Article

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