Detection of weak ship signals with the optimization of polarimetric contrast enhancement

High Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-91

  Li, Haiyan ^a,b   He, Yijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ocean remote sensing; Optimization; Polarimetric SAR; Ship detection

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); SHIP DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 41649117894     PISSN: 10066748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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