Ship detection using terra-SAR-X images in the Campos Basin (Brazil)

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 545-548

  Paes, Rafael L ^a   Lorenzzetti, Joao A ^b   Gherardi, Douglas F M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Constant false alarm rate (CFAR); estimation; K distribution; ship detection; TerraSAR X (TSX)

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); K-DISTRIBUTION; SHIP DETECTION; TERRASAR-X;

ERRORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITES; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954620788     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2041322     Document Type: Article

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