Detection of linear features in synthetic-aperture radar images by use of the localized Radon transform and prior information

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 264-273

  Onana, Vincent de Paul ^a,b   Trouvé, Emmanuel ^c   Mauris, Gilles ^c   Rudant, Jean Paul ^b   Tonyé, Emmanuel ^a  

^a Ecole National Superieure Polytechnique Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL SENSORS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SATELLITES;

GEOGRAPHICAL-FEATURE DATA BASES; LINEAR FEATURES; LOCALIZED RADON TRANSFORM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0742285834     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000264     Document Type: Article

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