Advanced fractal approach for unsupervised classification of SAR images

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1338-1349

  Pant, Triloki ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^a   Srivastava, Tanuja ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Moran's I; SAR image classification; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION ESTIMATION; SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TRIANGULAR PRISM SURFACE AREA METHOD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 77950961187     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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