Improving ship detection with polarimetric SAR based on convolution between co-polarization channels

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1221-1236

  Li, Haiyan ^a,b   He, Yijun ^a   Wang, Wenguang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Co polarization; Convolution; Polarimetric SAR; Ship detection

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-ONLY DATA; CO-POLARIZATION; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTORS; CONVOLUTION FUNCTIONS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIZATION CHANNELS; SHIP DETECTION; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR;

CONVOLUTION; DETECTORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

SHIPS;

EID: 63849084950     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90201221     Document Type: Article

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