A novel multi-scale level set method for SAR image segmentation based on a statistical model

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5600-5614

  Sui, Haigang ^a   Xu, Chuan ^a   Liu, Junyi ^a   Sun, Kaimin ^a   Wen, Chengfeng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INITIAL SEGMENTATION; MULTI-REGION SEGMENTATIONS; SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL MODELING; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NOISE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863297323     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.666814     Document Type: Article

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