Linear landmark extraction in SAR images with application to augmented integrity aero-navigation: An overview to a novel processing chain

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8008, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fabbrini, L ^a   Messina, M ^b   Greco, M ^b   Pinelli, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IDS INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

CFAR; Edge detection; RoA; Road extraction; Synthetic aperture radar; T test; WMW test

Indexed keywords

CFAR; ROA; ROAD EXTRACTION; T-TESTS; WMW TEST;

AIR NAVIGATION; ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTION; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; RADAR ASTRONOMY; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80054966962     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.905022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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