Modifications in the SIFT operator for effective SAR image matching

International Journal of Image and Data Fusion

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-256

  Suri, Sahil ^a   Schwind, Peter ^a   Uhl, Johannes ^a   Reinartz, Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Image matching registration; Multimodal; SAR; SIFT

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951842456     PISSN: 19479832     EISSN: 19479824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2010.495322     Document Type: Article

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