SAR imagery segmentation by statistical region growing and hierarchical merging

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1365-1378

  Carvalho, E A ^a   Ushizima, D M ^b   Medeiros, F N S ^a   Martins, C I O ^a   Marques, R C P ^a   Oliveira, I N S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical merging; Hypothesis testing; Region growing; SAR image segmentation; Speckle noise

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MERGING; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HIERARCHICAL MERGING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REGION GROWING; SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPECKLE NOISE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 80054946151     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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