Using SAR images to detect ships from sea clutter

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-198

  Liao, Mingsheng ^a   Wang, Changcheng ^a   Wang, Yong ^b   Jiang, Liming ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS; CFAR ALGORITHMS; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE ALGORITHMS; K DISTRIBUTIONS; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; SAR IMAGES; SEA CLUTTERS; SHIP DETECTIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; WEIBULL;

ALARM SYSTEMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; RADAR CLUTTER; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACKING RADAR;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 50849103557     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.915593     Document Type: Article

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