Improved ship detection using polarimetric SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1800-1803

  Liu, C ^a   Vachon, P W ^a   Geling, G W ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION THEORY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHIPS;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR) DETECTOR; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SHIP DETECTION; SWATH WIDTH;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 15944364508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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