Dark-spot detection from SAR intensity imagery with spatial density thresholding for oil-spill monitoring

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2026-2035

  Shu, Yuanming ^a   Li, Jonathan ^a   Yousif, Hamad ^a   Gomes, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dark spot detection; Density estimation; Intensity threshold; Oil spill; Spatial density threshold

Indexed keywords

AREA THRESHOLD; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; AVERAGE NUMBERS; BACKGROUND PIXELS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTRAST THRESHOLD; DARK SPOTS; DATA SETS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; DETECTION WINDOWS; FALSE TARGETS; INTENSITY IMAGES; INTENSITY THRESHOLD; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; MARINE OIL; MATLAB PLATFORM; OMISSION ERRORS; PC-BASED; PER UNIT; RADARSAT 1; SAR IMAGES; SCANSAR; SPATIAL DENSITIES; SPOT DETECTION; THRESHOLDING;

ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER BEAM WELDING; OIL SPILLS; PIXELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

TRACKING RADAR;

DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OIL SPILL; PIXEL; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77954816223     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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