A new automatic technique for coastline extraction from SAR images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8536, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Del Frate, Fabio ^a   Latini, Daniele ^a   Minchella, Andrea ^b   Palazzo, Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b RSAC Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c SERCO ASSURANCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal mapping; COSMO SkyMed; Image segmentation; Pulse Coupled Neural Networks (PCNN); SAR; X Band

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MAPPING; COSMO-SKYMED; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK; SAR; X-BAND;

EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEA LEVEL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84875654236     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.976856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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