Man-made target detection in urban areas based on a new azimuth stationarity extraction method

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1138-1146

  Wu, Wenjin ^a,b   Guo, Huadong ^a   Li, Xinwu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Object detection; remote sensing; SAR; stability; urban areas

Indexed keywords

DETECTION ACCURACY; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; LIVING ENVIRONMENT; OBJECT DETECTION; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; SAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; URBAN AREAS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AZIMUTH; DETECTION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84880281546     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2243700     Document Type: Article

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