Target detection for very high-frequency synthetic aperture radar ground surveillance

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-110

  Ye, W ^a   Paulson, C ^a   Wu, D ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DIVERSITY COMBINING; FEATURE WEIGHTING; GROUND SURVEILLANCE; IMAGE DIFFERENCING; MULTI-PASS; MULTIPLE IMAGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TARGET CLASS; TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHM; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84858711707     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi.2010.0028     Document Type: Article

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