Two-dimensional variation algorithm for fractal analysis of sea SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2361-2373

  Berizzi, Fabrizio ^a,b   Bertini, Gabriele ^b   Martorella, Marco ^a,b   Bertacca, Massimo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractal; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ROUGHNESS;

ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 33748304388     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.873577     Document Type: Article

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