Review on heterogeneity measurement of synthetic aperture radar imagery with complex scenario

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1687-1692

  Chen, Jie ^a   Zhu, Jing ^a   Zhou, Yin Qing ^a   Li, Chun Sheng ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Heterogeneity measurements; Image segmentation; Information theory

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TRACKING RADAR;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATIONS; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITIES; GEOMETRIC MEANS; HETEROGENEITY MEASUREMENTS; HETEROGENITY; PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; POST-PROCESSING; SAR IMAGERIES; SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERIES; TEXTURAL INFORMATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 55149118268     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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