A new statistical model for Markovian classification of Urban areas in high-Resolution SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2046-2057

  Tison, Céline ^a,b   Nicolas, Jean Marie ^a   Tupin, Florence ^a   Maître, Henri ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Fisher distribution; High resolution; Markovian segmentation; Mellin transform; Statistical model and estimation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VEGETABLE OILS;

CLASSIFICATION; FISHER DISTRIBUTION; MARKOVIAN SEGMENTATION; MELLIN TRANSFORM; URBAN AREAS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 7044247421     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.834630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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