CFAR detection of extended objects in high-resolution SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 833-843

  Bisceglie, Maurizio Di ^a   Galdi, Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection; Spot light synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Weibull background

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASPHALT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR) DETECTION; RANDOM BEHAVIOR; SPOT LIGHT SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); WEIBULL BACKGROUND;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 16444374933     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.843190     Document Type: Article

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