Automatic target recognition by means of polarimetric ISAR images and neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3786-3794

  Martorella, Marco ^a   Giusti, Elisa ^a   Capria, Amerigo ^a   Berizzi, Fabrizio ^a   Bates, Bevan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition (ATR); Neural networks (NNs); Polarimetric inverse synthetic aperture radar (Pol ISAR)

Indexed keywords

CLEAN TECHNIQUE; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; ISAR IMAGES; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; POLARIMETRIC INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (POL-ISAR); PROOF-OF-CONCEPT TESTS; SCATTERING CENTERS; SCATTERING MATRICES;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 70350662341     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2025371     Document Type: Article

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