A characterization of shannon entropy and bhattacharyya measure of contrast in polarimetric and interferometric SAR image

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1097-1108

  Morio, Jéôme ^a   Refregier, Philippe ^b   Goudail, François ^c   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^a   Dupuis, Xavier ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast definition; Entropy; Image edge analysis; Polarimetric interferometry; Radar polarimetry; Statistical image processing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; ENTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING;

CONTRAST DEFINITION; IMAGE EDGE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR POLARIMETRY; STATISTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 66249107043     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2017107     Document Type: Article

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