A change detection measure based on a likelihood ratio and statistical properties of SAR intensity images

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-275

  Xiong, Boli ^a,b   Chen, Jing M ^b   Kuang, Gangyao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE DETECTORS; CRITICAL STEPS; DECISION RULES; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY IMAGES; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; SAR IMAGES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTORS;

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80054724962     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.572093     Document Type: Article

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