Information theory-based approach for contrast analysis in polarimetric and/or interferometric SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2185-2196

  Morio, Jérôme ^a   Réfrégier, Philippe ^b   Goudail, François ^c   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^a   Dupuis, Xavier ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast definition; Image processing; Image system analysis; Radar polarimetry; SAR interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES;

BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; CONTRAST DEFINITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SYSTEM ANALYSIS; IMAGING CONFIGURATIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; NEIGHBORING REGIONS; NEW APPROACHES; POL-INSAR; POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 48849091456     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.926115     Document Type: Article

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