Applicability of the SIFT operator to geometric SAR image registration

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1959-1980

  Schwind, P ^a,b   Suri, S ^a   Reinartz, P ^a   Siebert, A ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AFFINE INVARIANT FEATURE; COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS; IMAGE FILTERING; MULTI-TEMPORAL; OPERATOR PERFORMANCE; PROCESSING CHAIN; REGISTRATION PROBLEMS; SUB-PIXEL REGISTRATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77951838910     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902927622     Document Type: Article

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