Separation between water and land in sar images using region-based level sets

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 471-475

  Silveira, Margarida ^a   Heleno, Sandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Coastline extraction; Flood mapping; Image classification; Level set methods; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COASTLINE EXTRACTION; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FLOOD MAPPING; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHODS; LOG-NORMAL; PIXEL INTENSITIES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; REGION-BASED; SAR IMAGES; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

ALGORITHMS; DROP BREAKUP; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SET THEORY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67651158828     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2017283     Document Type: Article

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