Probability distribution mixture model for detection of targets in high-resolution SAR images

2009 International Radar Conference "Surveillance for a Safer World", RADAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Porgès, Tristan ^a   Delabbaye, Jean Yves ^b   Enderli, Cyrille ^b   Favier, Gérard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic target detection; CFAR; K distribution; SAR images; Statistical mixture

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); MIXTURES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR CLUTTER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATIC TARGET DETECTION; CFAR; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATIOS; DISTRIBUTION MIXTURES; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; K DISTRIBUTION; SAR IMAGES; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 77952602788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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