Nonparametric identification of anisotropic (Elliptic) correlations in spatially distributed data sets

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 10 I, 2008, Pages 4738-4751

  Chorti, Arsenia ^a,b   Hristopulos, Dionissions T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Correlations; Geostatistics; Image processing; Mapping; Parameter inference; Spatial random fields

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION METHODS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MEDICAL IMAGING; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADON; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CORRELATIONS; GEOSTATISTICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; PARAMETER INFERENCE; SPATIAL RANDOM FIELDS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 53149124819     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.924144     Document Type: Article

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