Nonparametric change detection in multitemporal SAR images based on mean-shift clustering

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2022-2031

  Aiazzi, Bruno ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^b   Baronti, Stefano ^a   Garzelli, Andrea ^c   Zoppetti, Claudia ^c  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change detection; information theoretic features; mean shift algorithm; multitemporal images; nonparametric methods; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; INFORMATION-THEORETIC FEATURES; MEAN SHIFT ALGORITHM; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84875639243     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2238946     Document Type: Article

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