Possibilistic versus belixef function fusion for antipersonnel mine detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1488-1498

  Milisavljević, Nada ^a   Bloch, Isabelle ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; Multisensor systems; Possibility theory

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KETONES; MINES; MINING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; COMBINATION OPERATORS; DECISION RULES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MASS FUNCTIONS; MINE DETECTIONS; MULTISENSOR SYSTEMS; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBILITY THEORY; PRIOR INFORMATION; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR LEVEL;

SENSORS;

EID: 53349156749     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916210     Document Type: Article

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