Markov chain CFAR detection for polarimetric data using data fusion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 397-408

  Fei, Chuhong ^a   Liu, Ting ^a   Lampropoulos, George A ^a   Anastassopoulos, Vassilis ^b  

^a A U G SIGNALS LTD   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection; data fusion; Markov chain; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

CFAR DETECTION; CFAR DETECTOR; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTIONS; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTORS; DATA FUSION METHODS; DECISION FUSION; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; FIRST-ORDER; FULL POLARIZATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF);

DATA FUSION; ERRORS; MARKOV PROCESSES; METADATA; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTORS;

CORRELATION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; PIXEL; POLARIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84856354864     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2164257     Document Type: Article

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