Registration of optical and sar satellite images by exploring the spatial relationship of the improved SIFT

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 657-661

  Fan, Bin ^a   Huo, Chunlei ^a   Pan, Chunhong ^a   Kong, Qingqun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Optical and SAR image registration; remote sensing; scale invariant feature transform (SIFT); spatial consistent matching (SCM); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

FEATURE MATCH; FEATURE-BASED METHOD; OPTICAL IMAGE; SAR IMAGES; SATELLITE IMAGES; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SPATIAL CONSISTENT MATCHING (SCM); SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; REMOTE SENSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84870859656     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2216500     Document Type: Article

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