SAR image classification based on alpha-stable distribution

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-59

  Peng, Yijin ^a   Xu, Xin ^a   Zhou, Wanbin ^a   Zhao, Yin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION PRECISION; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FEATURE VECTORS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; SAR IMAGES; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS; SUBBAND COEFFICIENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TEXTURE FEATURES;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXTURES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054808238     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.487878     Document Type: Article

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