Effect of apodization on SAR image understanding

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3533-3551

  Pastina, Debora ^a   Colone, Fabiola ^a   Lombardo, Pierfrancesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Image classification; Radar resolution; Sidelobe suppression; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RADAR RESOLUTION; SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80955150683     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.905309     Document Type: Article

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