Hierarchical feature-based classification approach for fast and user-interactive SAR image interpretation

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-121

  Bernad, Gemma Pons ^a,b   Denise, Léonard ^b   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b THALES COMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

Radar image classification; Radar image region analysis; Radar image segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEMANTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HIERARCHICAL FEATURES; HOMOGENEITY PROPERTIES; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; IMAGE REGION ANALYSIS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; ROUGH CLASSIFICATION; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 58149503782     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2001031     Document Type: Article

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