A parzen-window-kernel-based CFAR algorithm for ship detection in SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 557-561

  Gao, Gui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Parzen window; ship detection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; CFAR ALGORITHMS; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; KERNEL FUNCTION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARZEN WINDOWS; SAR IMAGES; SHIP DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TYPICAL TARGETS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACKING RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79955522522     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2090492     Document Type: Article

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