Modeling and simulation of SAR image texture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3530-3546

  Collins, Michael J ^a   Allan, Jeremy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Sky Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter; Simulation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Texture

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CLUTTER; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DESCRIPTORS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE TEXTURE; K-DISTRIBUTED; MODELING AND SIMULATION; RAW SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SAR SIGNALS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED IMAGES; SIMULATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DENSITIES; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TEXTURE CHARACTERISTICS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

BACKSCATTERING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

BACKSCATTER; CORRELATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 70350618611     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2021260     Document Type: Article

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