Information content of very high resolution SAR images: Study of feature extraction and imaging parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4591-4610

  Dumitru, Corneliu Octavian ^a   Datcu, Mihai ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annotation; Fourier; Gabor; gray level co occurrence matrix (GLCM); incidence angle; orbit direction; patch; primitive features (PFs); quadrature mirror filter (QMF); semantic; support vector machine (SVM); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION; FOURIER; GABOR; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; INCIDENCE ANGLES; PATCH; PRIMITIVE FEATURES (PFS); TERRASAR-X;

DIGITAL FILTERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SEMANTICS; SENSORS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; GEOMETRY; MACHINERY; MATRIX; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PATCH SIZE; PIXEL; RADAR; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

CANADA; EUROPE; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA;

EID: 84881080474     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2265413     Document Type: Article

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