Unsupervised iterative detection of land mines in highly cluttered environments

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 509-523

  Batman, Sinan ^a   Goutsias, John ^b  

^a Eastman Kodak Health Imaging   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic land mine detection; Coastal battlefield reconnaissance and analysis program; Mathematical morphology; Maximum noise fraction transform; Morphological reconstruction; Multispectral image processing and analysis; Principal component transform

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

LAND MINES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0038717146     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.812325     Document Type: Article

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