Ship detection based on coherence images derived from cross correlation of multilook SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 184-187

  Ouchi, Kazuo ^a   Tamaki, Shinsuke ^a   Yaguchi, Hidenobu ^a   Iehara, Masato ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Multilook processing; Ship detection; Speckle noise; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WATER WAVES;

CROSS CORRELATION; MULTILOOK PROCESSING; SHIP DETECTION; SPECKLE NOISE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 3342949459     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.827462     Document Type: Article

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