Improvement of ship detection accuracy by SAR multi-look cross-correlation technique using adaptive CFAR

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3716-3719

  Ouchi, Kazuo ^a   Hwang, Seong In ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFAR; Marine vehicle detection and tacking; Multi look cross correlation; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MARINE RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SHIPS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRACKING RADAR;

CFAR; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MARINE VEHICLES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650859894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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