Improved ship detection with airborne polarimetric SAR data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 122-131

  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; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR) DETECTORS; HORIZONTAL RECEIVE ANTENNA POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SHIP DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 19544373148     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m04-056     Document Type: Article

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