A new CFAR ship detection algorithm based on 2-D joint log-normal distribution in SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 806-810

  Ai, Jiaqiu ^a   Qi, Xiangyang ^a   Yu, Weidong ^a   Deng, Yunkai ^a   Liu, Fan ^a   Shi, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

2 D joint log normal (2DLN) distribution; Constant false alarm rate (CFAR); gray correlation; ship detect; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCE; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTIONS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; FALSE ALARMS; GRAY CORRELATION; GRAY INTENSITY; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NONHOMOGENEITY; SAR IMAGES; SHAPE DIFFERENCE; SHIP DETECTION; SHIP TARGETS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; ERRORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PIXELS; RADAR; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77957995823     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2048697     Document Type: Article

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