A matching method used for the estimation of sea ice motion from ERS-1/2 SAR image pairs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3217, Issue , 1997, Pages 36-47

  Li, Aisheng ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Laplacian pyramid; Motion estimation; SAR image sequences; Spectral maximum cross correlation (SMCC); Sum ofsquared difference (SSD)

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FILE ORGANIZATION; ICE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE OPTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET DRONES;

ARCTIC OCEANS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DISTANCE MEASURES; HIERARCHICAL MATCHING; IMAGE PAIRS; LAPLACIAN PYRAMID; LAPLACIAN PYRAMIDS; MATCHING METHODS; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; OCEAN DYNAMICS; SAR IMAGE SEQUENCES; SAR IMAGES; SEA ICE MOTIONS; SHIP NAVIGATIONS; SPECTRAL MAXIMUM CROSS-CORRELATION (SMCC); SQUARED DIFFERENCES; SUM-OFSQUARED DIFFERENCE (SSD);

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 57649103298     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.295623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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