Fast detecting and locating groups of targets in high-resolution SAR images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1378-1384

  Gao, Gui ^a   Kuang, Gangyao ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Li, Deren ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Detection; Discrimination; Location; Synthetic aperture radar; Target group

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR WARNING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES; TARGET DISCRIMINATION; TARGET GROUP;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 33845424350     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2006.01.019     Document Type: Article

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