A new ship detection method based on polarimetric SAR classification

Chinese Journal of Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 769-774

  Wang, Wenguang ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Lei, Peng ^a   Mao, Shiyi ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature vector; Polarimetric SAR; Ship detection; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); FEATURE EXTRACTION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR CLUTTER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTION METHODS; FEATURES VECTOR; MAN MADE OBJECTS; MODEL-BASED ALGORITHMS; NEW SHIPS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; SHIP DETECTION; STATISTIC MODELING; TARGET DESCRIPTIONS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

SHIPS;

EID: 55349135576     PISSN: 10224653     EISSN: 20755597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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