Assessment of TerraSAR-X products with a new feature extraction application: Monitoring of cylindrical tanks

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 930-938

  Guida, Raffaella ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^b   Riccio, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Inverse problems; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL TANKS; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; FEATURE RETRIEVAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE PRODUCTS; IN-PHASE; NEW APPLICATIONS; PREDICTION MODEL; SAR IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREAS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 76349084952     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2029233     Document Type: Article

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