Exploitation of ship scattering in polarimetric SAR for an improved classification under high clutter conditions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1224-1235

  Margarit, Gerard ^a,b   Mallorqui, Jordi J ^a   Fortuny Guasch, Joaquim ^c   Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b GMV Aerospace and Defense   (Spain)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherent target decompositions (CTDs); Polarimetric SAR interferometry; Sea simulation; Ship classification

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING; SEAWATER; SHIP MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLUTTERED SCENES; COHERENT TARGET DECOMPOSITIONS (CTDS); COMPLEX TARGETS; IMAGING GEOMETRIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIZATION STATE; ROBUST CLASSIFICATIONS; SCATTERING CENTERS; SEA CLUTTERS; SEA SIMULATION; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACES; SHIP CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SHIP DESIGN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 63149084921     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008721     Document Type: Article

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