Image segmentation from multi-look passive polarimetric imagery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6682, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Thilak, Vimal ^a   Voelz, David G ^a   Creusere, Charles D ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C means clustering; Illumination invariant segmentation; Passive polarimetric imagery; Remote sensing; Scene segmentation; Stokes vector

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING;

ILLUMINATION INVARIANT SEGMENTATION; PASSIVE POLARIMETRIC IMAGERY; POLARIMETRIC IMAGERY; POLARIZATION STATE; STOKES VECTORS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 42149193290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.731503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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