A hierarchical ship detection scheme for high-resolution SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART2, 2012, Pages 4173-4184

  Wang, Yinghua ^a   Liu, Hongwei ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Covariance descriptor; feature extraction; high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR); ship detection; ship discrimination; subaperture analysis

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE DESCRIPTOR; DETECTION STAGE; FALSE ALARMS; HERMITIANS; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; NEW DETECTORS; ONE-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; RADARSAT-2; SHIP DETECTION; SHIP TARGETS; SUB-APERTURES; SUBAPERTURE;

DETECTORS; ERRORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SHIPS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADARSAT; SHIP TECHNOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84867037100     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2189011     Document Type: Article

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