A parametric model for characterizing seabed textures in synthetic aperture sonar images

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 250-266

  Cobb, J Tory ^a   Slatton, K Clint ^b   Dobeck, Gerald J ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Image texture analysis; Parameter estimation; Scattering; Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS)

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION; CORRELATION IMAGES; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CROSS SECTION; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE SIZES; IMAGE TEXTURE; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING PLANE; INTENSITY IMAGES; ITERATIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION; MIXING PARAMETERS; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; MIXTURE MODEL; MODEL FIT; PARAMETERIZED; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; PARAMETRIC MODELS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; ROCK FORMATIONS; SAND RIPPLE; SEA BOTTOM; STATISTICAL SHAPES; TEXTURE CHARACTERISTICS; TRUNCATED DATA;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METAL ANALYSIS; MIXTURES; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

EID: 77952953487     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2010.2044431     Document Type: Article

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