Statistical modeling and analysis of high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar images

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 133-145

  Kuttikkad, Shyam ^a   Chellappa, Rama ^b  

^a Etak   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

SAR clutter models; SAR image analysis; SAR image segmentation and classification; Target detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041726166     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008994309819     Document Type: Article

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