A new coherency formalism for change detection and phenomenology in sar imagery: A field approach

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 458-462

  Sabry, Ramin ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherence; Coherent change detection (CCD); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BASIS SETS; CHANGE DETECTION; COHERENCE; COHERENT CHANGE DETECTION; COHERENT CHANGE DETECTION (CCD); CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; CORRELATION FACTORS; OPTIMAL UTILIZATION; PHASE MAPS; SAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION;

DIGITAL CAMERAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACKING RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67651155797     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2016359     Document Type: Article

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