Polarimetrically-persistent-scatterer-based automatic target recognition

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 11 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4588-4599

  Giusti, Elisa ^a   Martorella, Marco ^a   Capria, Amerigo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition (ATR); inverse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (ISAR); polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ATR SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; ISAR IMAGES; PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; ROBUST FEATURE SELECTION; SINGLE SCATTERING;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80455160267     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2164804     Document Type: Article

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