A scheme for ship detection in inhomogeneous regions based on segmentation of SAR images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5733-5747

  Zhang, F ^a   Wu, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTORS; DETECTION SCHEME; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; OBJECT-ORIENTED SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; UNIFORM REGIONS; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; ENVISAT-1; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 52649180037     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802089887     Document Type: Article

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