Object detection by using "whitening/dewhitening" to transform target signatures in multitemporal hyperspectral and multispectral imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 5 PART II, 2003, Pages 1136-1142

  Mayer, Rulon ^a   Bucholtz, Frank ^b   Scribner, Dean ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection performance; Detection statistics; End members; Hyperspectral imaging; Image processing; Linear prediction filters; Matched filter; Multispectral imaging; Target detection

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DEWHITENING TRANSFORM; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY; LINEAR PREDICTION FILTERS; MATCHED FILTER; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY; TRANSFORM TARGET SIGNATURES; WHITENING TRANSFORM;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038444539     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813553     Document Type: Letter

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