Application of fractal parameters for unsupervised classification of SAR images: A simulation based study

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 45-50

  Pant, Triloki ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^b   Srivastava, Tanuja ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

fractal parameters; SAR image; simulation of SAR images; unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION; FRACTAL PARAMETERS; LACUNARITY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; OPTICAL IMAGE; SAR IMAGE; SAR IMAGES; SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE SAR; SIMULATED IMAGES; SIMULATION-BASED; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79955106421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963564.1963572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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