Contextual descriptors for scene classes in very high resolution SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-84

  Popescu, Anca A ^a   Gavat, Inge ^a   Datcu, Mihai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

SAR image classification; spectral analysis; very high resolution

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; GREY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE PATCHES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ROBUST RECOGNITION; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SPACEBORNE SAR INSTRUMENTS; SPATIAL CONTEXT; TERRASAR-X; TEXTURE FEATURES; TEXTURE PROPERTIES; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84655163766     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2160838     Document Type: Article

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